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Today I learned that LDS Prophet Brigham Young owned a whisky distillery

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0XKy TIL Michael Birch, the founder of Bebo, sold Bebo to AOL for $850 million in 2008 only to later buy it back for only $1 million in 2013.
6980W TIL In 1902, Lionel Walter Rothschild brought 6 Edible Dormice (Glis glis) back to Tring, England from Hungary. Some of the 6 escaped, breeding and growing to an estimated 10,000 mice in a 200 mile radius around Tring that are both an invasive species and protected species.
loQAr TIL Elton John owned an English soccer team and was really good at it - "in the space of seven years, the club had climbed from bottom place in the lowest division of The Football League to top position in the highest division"
VBrNp TIL that Mangos have a very caustic sap when you pick them. It contains urushiol, terpinolene and resin acids. These can cause severe burning to your skin and could send you to the ER. Urushiol is also found in Poison Ivy and Cashews.
E1x8V TiL: During the Columbine shooting SWAT teams remained outside of the school while Klebold and Harris roamed the halls murdering students, they didn't enter until 3 hours after the two took their own lives.