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TIL that french fries contain nicotine. Members of the nightshade family such as tobacco and potatoes contain nicotine as a natural pesticide.

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n6OB TIL Bubble Wrap was originally intended to be used as 3D wallpaper
78E5M TIL that stress can shrink your brain.
KOap9 TIL that the widowed wife of Lee Harvey Oswald (the man who shot JFK), Marina Oswald Porter, is still alive and living in Texas. She still believes that he was innocent of the assassination.
wL8VP TIL Hawaii's public education system began in 1841 and is the oldest in the U.S. west of the Mississippi. When the kingdom was overthrown it became illegal to teach the Hawaiian language, teachers were punished for speaking Hawaiian at school. It wasn't until 1978 that the state made it mandatory.
m1Wlo TIL about Jacob C. Vouza, who was bayoneted in the throat and arms by the Japanese during the Guadalcanal campaign, passed out for hours, and still managed to escape and warn U.S. Marines of an impending attack.