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TIL that if you fart during surgery, it can cause an explosion

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EgOLX Til Disneyland grew a single Tomato Tree which grew 32,000 Tomatoes, Breaks World Record!
wxDE TIL Robert E Lee, the General of the Confederate Army, was anti-slavery and wanted to keep the Union intact but was very loyal to his home state of Virginia and choose to fight with the Confederacy because that is where Virginia aligned.
wRgo TIL There are nearly as many $100 bills as there are $1 bills in currency today, each about 6x as common as the $10 bill.
PYKxG TIL that in 1984, Burger King ran a commercial featuring a parody of Mr. Rogers. The real Mr. Rogers (a vegetarian) called up the BK vice president, who then ordered the commercials taken off the air at once. Mr. Rogers later met the actor, and told him he was proud of his marvelous job.
VoPk TIL that in 1861 Francis Key Howard wrote an editorial about President Lincoln’s suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus. He was subsequently imprisoned and held without trial for two years at Fort McHenry, where his grandfather Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner during the War of 1812