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TIL that President Roosevelt kept a pet badger in the White House

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5VJR8 TIL In 1875, a whiskey warehouse in Dublin caught fire leading to the deaths of 13 people - only none of the deaths were from the fire itself. Rather, it was because the people responded by lapping up streams of undiluted whiskey running through the streets, killing them via alcohol poisoning.
dgp8 TIL James Sligo Jameson, heir to Irish whiskey manufacturer Jameson’s, bought an 11-year-old girl and offered her to cannibals to document and sketch how she was cooked and eaten.
NX0nM TIL pineapples grow in bushes, not on trees.
nWwAd TIL that jellyfish rely on a network of nerve cells to sense their surroundings and coordinate movements, as they lack both a brain and a heart.
4DKg TIL that one of the B-29s that escorted the Enola Gay into Japan was called ‘Necessary Evil’.