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TIL things about lettuce, naturally grown wild lettuce contains tropane alkaloids, the active ingredient in cocaine.

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N79D8 TIL of Major Francis Harvey VC who after being mortally wounded and losing both legs during the Battle Of Jutland crawled to a voice pipe to order the burning magazine sealed and flooded, saving the HMS Lion and its 1000 sailors from being destroyed in a magazine explosion
bwmZ TIL that there is actually a word that rhymes with Orange, a sporange is part of a fern or plant.
7yWL TIL of Mary Fields, aka “Stagecoach Mary,” a 6 ft, 200 lb former slave who, at age 60, was hired by the U.S. Postal Service as she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of horses. She never missed a day of work, and when the snow was too deep for her horses, she carried the mail on her back.
8agBZ TIL The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub.L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250) is an Act of Congress that amended the federal holiday provisions of the United States Code to establish the observance of certain holidays on Mondays (including Memorial Day, formerly May 30th). Signed: 6/28/1968; Effective: 1/1/1971
g0PW TIL: Stephen King only charges $1 to adapt his short stories into films. He calls them “dollar babies”.