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TIL that Tom Brady was the last player drafted by the Montreal Expos to retire from his playing career

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QNX86 TIL that at the height of the Napoleonic wars, the British and French navies allowed ships carrying new rose varieties for Josephine Bonaparte to pass through the blockade
Z8o9a TIL There is a giant "Parabelrutsche" or Parabolic slide in the Mathematics department of the technical university in Munich.
JAGQ TIL the Santa Marie didn’t make to the U.S. because the crew partied too hard and all fell asleep. Only the cabin boy stayed awake to steer, but he crashed the ship into Haiti.
neQbd TIL how Pringles are made. They start off with potato dough, the dough is cut into potato-dough cookies, molded into curves, deep-fried, blown-dried, salted, stacked into cans and sold.
p8JWQ TIL Botulinum toxin, the toxin that Botox is derived from, would take 0.00008mg to kill a human, 2kg to kill everyone on the planet, considered the deadliest known toxin on earth, the most expensive substance ever made at £100 trillion per kilo and was first discovered in poorly prepared sausages.