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TIL Wayne Gretzky was never drafted

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0w1v5 TIL the first repository in the world designed to contain nuclear waste on an indefinite basis is being built in Onkalo, Finland, with a final depth of 520 meters and a cost of over 800 million euros.
XmV8 TIL President Ulysses S. Grant smoked an estimated 12 cigars a day. He also became the first president to die of cancer, only 5 days after finishing his autobiography.
pYn74 TIL that the world's largest frying pan is in Rose Hill, North Carolina, and can cook 365 chickens at once!
ndA9 TIL there is a proposal to allow for the free movement of people between Canada, the U.K., New Zealand and Australia, which in a poll of 67,000 people, over 90% were in favor of
0d8gp TIL that the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was killed after being struck by an arrow poisoned with manchineel sap. A present-day Spanish name is manzanilla de la muerte, "little apple of death". This refers to the fact that manchineel is one of the most toxic trees in the world.