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TIL poison oak and mangoes come from the same plant family

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MeBWK TIL former US president Gerald Ford, his wife Betty Ford, and politician Henry Kissinger all made guest appearances as themselves in a 1983 episode of night-time soap Dynasty
0Xjy TIL that the word “nincompoop” meaning a fool or silly person comes from the Latin phrase “non compos mentis” meaning “not of sound mind”
M1lm TIL in 1967 the Prime Minister of Australia mysteriously disappeared while swimming. He was pronounced dead 2 days later but no body has ever been found.
OoOxa TIL Van Gogh's The Starry Night actually includes the planet Venus in the night sky depiction
5pQ8 TIL that Lil Wayne was saved at 12 years old by a white police officer named Uncle Bob. “He was white as snow…my life was saved by a white man. I don’t know what racism is. I know a good mother fucker named Uncle Bob though”