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TIL most of the world's Botox is manufactured in Ireland. A couple of pounds/kilos of the raw botulinum neurotoxin used to make it is enough to kill everyone in the world, multiple times over.

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gMZxX TIL that Aaron Lewis messed up the national anthem at the Major League World Series in 2014, but it was also him that mocked Christina Aguilera for messing up the national anthem in 2011 at the Super Bowl
N7lZb TIL that the skeleton of Josef Mengele has been used as a teaching tool in Brazil
8eMmP TIL Black people were denied vanilla ice cream in the Jim Crow south – except on Independence Day
0wV7j TIL Jennifer Lawrence's career making role was Winter's Bone (2010) in which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. Just 2 years later she won it for Silver Linings Playbook, making her the second-youngest Best Actress winner at 22.
ep6EE TIL French physicists Leon Foucault and Louis Fizeau made the first successful photograph of the sun in 1845, five years after the first photograph of the Moon. In a major technological feat at the time, the solar photograph had an exposure time of 1/60th of a second