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

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Elmd TIL that, according to the memoir of a former slave, First Lady Dolley Madison did not save the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington from the British burning it during the War of 1812. Rather, a Frenchman and a gardener saved it, while Dolley just ran off with silver.
7KEp TIL the number of syllables in each lyrical phrase of the song Lateralus by Tool correspond with the fibonacci sequence.
OGA76 TIL Two sailors died when trying to salute then VP Millard Fillmore (Roadside America)
yVnAv TIL of the mystery soda machine on Capitol Hill Seattle, that operated from the late 1990’s until abruptly disappearing in 2018. The machine dispensed flavours of soda that were typically discontinued.
OaYX TIL there is a vault in the artic that holds every crop seed in case of a “doomsday event”