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TIL there’s a shotgun shell that plants flowers.

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LQgEd TIL that Patrick Stewart, a theater actor, was hesitant to sign a 6 year contract to perform on Star Trek: TNG, but his agent reassured him that the show would probably fail after one season. Stewart expected to "make some money, get a suntan, and go home."
OGxL TIL Israel is approximately the 20th most atheist/agnostic nation on Earth
KYyEa TIL that "rock 'n' roll" had been used since the early 1920s as a blues song lyric meaning sexual intercourse. The term was popularized by a record salesman and DJ to introduce racially charged "rythm & blues" to a white audience.
PYx4n TIL President Martin Van Buren (born Maarten van Buren) was raised in a Dutch community in Kinderhook, New York and grew up speaking Dutch, not learning English until he went to school. As a result, he is the only president in American history to speak English as a second language.
0dgMA TIL 601 Lexington Avenue—once the 7th-tallest building in the world—was in danger of being toppled over by high winds due to a structural error. It was secretly fixed and the public had no idea anything was wrong until an article about it came out decades later.