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TIL in 1997, amphetamine, methamphetamine, nicotine, and mescaline was found within two species of Texas acacia bushes.

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rk04 TIL when Mario Lemieux’s son Austin was born prematurely in 1996, the family spent a lot of time in the hospital with him, and found that older children there had no place to play. Guided by his wife’s Nathalie vision, they set up play rooms across hospitals in the US, opening the 29th one in 2014.
Zygv TIL 3 Jewish Prisoners escaped Auschwitz in a stolen car while dressed as S.S guards
yVVLp TIL that strongest insect in the world is Horned Dung Beetle that can lift over 1100 times its body weight which equals to an average person lifting 2 fully loaded 18 wheel trucks above their heads.
d8xxd TIL Charles D Barger was gassed in WWI, received the Medal of Honor and a record 10 Purple Hearts, became a policeman after the war and was shot 5 times during a shootout. Later in life he was shot by a deputy and died from self-inflicted burn injuries sustained during a mental breakdown.
abEL TIL that the FBI learned two of its informants were planning to murder a rival gangster. The FBI didn’t intervene, and the man was murdered. The FBI then stayed silent when four innocent men were convicted of the crime. By the time the truth was revealed, two of the four men had died in prison.