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TIL France and Spain have a timeshare called Pheasant Island. They alternate ownership every six months.

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4XxvR TIL of pokeweed berries. Found in our backyard, these berries look like a cross between blueberries and grapes. These berries are dramatically poisonous and can result in respiratory paralysis. Birds are immune to the poison; dogs, humans, and other mammals are not.
4k8ao TIL Harland Sanders, founder of KFC, was excelling at cooking by age 7. When he was 6, his father died, and his mother had to go to work at a canning factory for days at a time, requiring Sanders to care for his two younger siblings, including the family cooking.
OjG4 TIL Russell Crowe, Daniel Day-Lewis, Vin Diesel and Nicolas Cage all turned down the part of Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
yQNYw TIL that an escaped slave, Bass Reeves, was the phenomenal man who inspired The Lone Ranger!
X7D6 TIL in 1954, former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke won his place in the Guiness Book of World records for drinking 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds.