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TIL: Sweet Potatoes are a commercial crop in Ontario, Canada

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wowMY TIL that the United States is home to about 43% of Golf Courses Worldwide, more than any other nation.
e051L TIL the Archbishop of Manila from 1974-2003 was called Cardinal Sin.
XEDer TIL President Garfield’s cause of death wasn’t so much the bullet wound from his assassination attempt as much as it was the treatment he received afterward. His doctors’ clumsy, unsanitary attempts to heal him resulted in a severe, painful infection that killed him three months later.
J1wn8 TIL The scientific name for the famous Corpse Flower (a very large flowering plant that blooms only once every 7-10 years and releases an unbearable scent of feces and rotting flesh) is Amorphophallus titanum, which in Latin translates roughly to "giant, shapeless dick."
EZYV TIL Alabama vs. Auburn is the only football game mandated by state law. If they don’t play, they don’t receive state funding.