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TIL the highly poisonous plant, deadly nightshade was named belladonna (beautiful woman in Italian) as women would use it in eye drops to make their eyes look more seductive

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QJY7M TIL that association football's all-time top goalscorer may well be a 5'10" chain-smoking lesbian from the early 20th century. Lily Parr's career ran from 1920 to 1951 and she reputedly scored almost 1000 goals in this time.
e0QR6 TIL in 2009 an ascot-wearing Jeopardy! contestant and "self-proclaimed gadabout" successfully hid a drawing of a dick in his podium signature
ynmJ TIL Netflix and HBO have nearly identical revenue ($5.5bil & $5.4bil), but for HBO $1.8bil of that is profit…for Netflix, only $266mil is profit.
VV4 TIL of Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner who was involved in a fatal plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. It took 2 years for her to regain the ability to walk again, but in 1936 she rejoined the US Olympic relay team and took home the gold medal.
LkeBp TIL about the 6 Day War, Where the Israelis achieved some absolutely incredible victories against the odds, and defeated a whole region of enemies in 6 days using superior strategy and ferocious ground troops.