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TIL of a bush similar to stinging nettle native to Australia capable of killing humans

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woOvM TIL about John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, a British aristocrat who in 1974 murdered his childrens' nanny and attacked his wife before fleeing in his car that was later found abandoned. He was never seen again and declared legally dead in 1999.
jDkR TIL approximately 25% of all black swan pairings are between homosexual males. Some couples are so eager for cygnets that “They steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs”.
bpWj TIL the most powerful gangs in the United States have a presence in the US military. Gangster Disciples, Crips, Bloods, 18th Street, Nortenos, Black Disciples, Surenos, Latin Kings, Vice Lords, African Nations, Aryan Nations, Aryan Brotherhood and Ku Klux Klan graffiti has been documented in Iraq.
lLMr TIL in 2009 Irish police found they had more than 50 motoring offences recorded for someone called “Prawo Jadzy”. It turned out that Prawo Jadzy means “driving license” in Polish
78Wvb TIL there are 160 separate photographic portraits of Frederick Douglass, which is more than Abraham Lincoln.