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TIL of the Poison Book Project, an effort to identify and catalogue books that were printed in the 19th century using arsenic compounds and “Paris green,” and are poisonous to researchers and librarians

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byY9 TIL that West Germany’s players were injected with meth before they won the 1954 World Cup final.
X0aEr TIL That John Tyler Was The Only US President To Not Be Buried With The American Flag And The only US president To Be Buried With The Confederate Flag
5VeyD TIL Andrew Jackson the 7th President of the Unites States used to hate Banks and Paper Notes
VBGmG TIL: during the conquest of the Aztecs, Hernán Cortés was a wanted criminal, having foregone orders by the colonial governor of Cuba to cease operations. Expeditionary forces were even sent to attempt and arrest him.
P157w TIL that the punctuation mark ?! is called an 'interrobang,' invented in the 1960s to combine a question mark and exclamation point for rhetorical questions.