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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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kOBBm TIL that Roy Orbison had a gift for impersonation and could recite entire Monty Python sketches.
epnZE TIL that the video for Weird Al's "Smells like Nirvana" was shot in the same sound stage as the clip for Smells like teen spirit and also used most of the extras from the original, including the janitor that's featured in various scenes.
Z6rR TIL the belief that anyone who disagrees with you must be stupid, uninformed, irrational, or worse is a logical fallacy called Naïve realism.
v1Eyx TIL Tennessee bans "omnibus bills." The content of bills passed by the Tennessee General Assembly can be no broader than the title of the bill.
GYPA5 TIL A SYNANAGRAM is a word whose letters can be rearranged to form a different word with the same meaning—like ‘angered’ and ‘enraged’. ‘Twelve plus one’ is an anagram of ‘eleven plus two.’ and both add up to 13!