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TIL that taro leaves are poisonous when eaten raw

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7rAbb TIL that Julia Tuttle was the only woman to found a major American city, having owned and developed the land that would eventually become Miami.
4ko5R TIL in the 1992 World Series, the US Marine Corps carried the Canadian flag into the stadium upside down.
8aLRZ TIL U.S Customs seizes an average of $4.3 million in counterfeit products per day.
yg7V TIL women were not the first choice as telephone operators. Prior to September 1, 1878, when a woman named Emma Nutt became the first female operator, boys were the preferred choice. It soon became apparent, however, that boys would insult, curse at, and prank the customers.
n0Ar TIL that in 1997 Morgan Freeman offered to cover the cost of prom for a Mississippi school that held two racially segregated proms every year, provided that the one Freeman would be covering would just be one racially integrated prom. This offer was refused until 2008.