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TIL: Root beer and MDMA are both made from the sassafras tree

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R54RQ TIL of Cordell Jackson, who (among other things) is thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label.
gMXkD TIL: James Richardson spent 21 years in jail for murdering his 7 children who died after eating a poisoned lunch. Among the facts concealed by the prosecution; the babysitter had who served the poisoned meal was a convicted murderer on parole for poisoning her husband. He was exonerated in 1989.
d8Gd TIL meteorites that fell on the early Earth brought reduced phosphorus to the planet. This allowed oxidation to phosphates, thus providing a mechanism for the generation of DNA and RNA.
9YEEp TIL due to a case of real world bullying for a Runescape in-game item, the Dutch legal system has since then considered non-physical theft as being a regular form of "theft" and is judged as such by the law
PY9ln TIL that during his lifetime Pythagoras was subject to elaborate legends like having a golden thigh, could fly thanks to a magic arrow, was greeted by name by a river, and once when bitten by a deadly snake, bit it back and killed it