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TIL that the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) the emblem for Australia contains a psychoactive alkaloid called DMT.

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9YEXM TIL wild hogs are immune to most poisonous snakes.
NDJ1 TIL: President George Washington was a lieutenant colonel in the British Army. He was unsuccessful in obtaining a royal commission but received a decree granting the British militia the same executive powers as commissioned officers. He is the only U.S President to have served the Crown.
jNEga TIL the classic 1970 war movie Kelly's Heroes was based on an actual robbery of the Nazi gold reserves by a syndicate of US and German servicemen in 1945. It was covered up by the US and Germany and only two gold bars found in 1996 have been recovered worth about $1m at today's prices.
KOeP6 TIL there is an organisation responsible for maintaining global time standards, and they occasionally apply a "leap second" to Universal Standard Time
VJ1Q TIL the longest reigning empress of Austria, was assassinated in 1898 in Geneva. Her assassin initially wanted to kill the Duke of Orleans, but missed his chance, and simply decided to kill the next member of the royal family he saw.