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TIL There’s a plant in Australia that can kill you if you touch it!

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Ood44 TIL that French fries are called like this, because it come from the type of cut, the "French cut" referred to "Julienning" (julienne in french) the term "French fry" was alluded to when, in 1802, Thomas Jefferson requested "potatoes served in the French manner" to accompany a White House meal.
5PZ9 TIL that mosquitoes have killed more humans than all the wars in history
x69Zw TIL that French mathematician Abraham de Moivre noticed that he slept more and more as he grew older, and predicted he would die on the day his sleep reached 24 hours. He did indeed die on that day.
4Xyob TIL in 1970 Nike offered Spencer Haywood either $100,000 or 10 percent of the company in exchange for promoting the company’s shoes. He chose the 100k over the stock that would be worth $8.6 billion today
9w4Qm TIL the Bureau of Land Management uses trigger activated sodium cyanide traps to kill coyotes on public lands which inadvertently kill thousands of pets and endangered species every year.