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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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O9ae TIL that in 1994, when the Ku Klux Klan applied to sponsor a portion of United States Interstate 55 in Missouri which allowed them to have signs stating the sponsorship, since the state could not legally refuse it, the Missouri legislature voted to name the highway section the “Rosa Parks Highway”.
WkEg9 TIL Ben Franklin, while feuding with Titan Leeds, used astrology to predict his death and published this in the Poor Richards Almanac, and when Leeds didn't die on that date, referred to him as "the ghost of Titan Leeds" thereafter and encouraged him to pass on.
VMEy8 TIL that some chimpanzees have been observed sharpening sticks with their teeth and using them as spears to hunt small mammals.
0X6p TIL The United States are the only country which currently has minors serving life sentences. There were 2,589 in 2009.
pvjZ TIL after the Australian 1 and 2 cent coins were phased out in late 1991, they were melted down and used in the Sydney 2000 Olympics as Bronze Medals.