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TIL - There is a garden in Alnwick England which is dedicated entirely to flora which are deadly and/or narcotic

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WkxeB Til that an 8 year old named Gabi Mann befriended her local crows by giving them part of her school lunch every day, and in return, they have started leaving her gifts ranging from random shiny objects like broken glass to a lens cap that her mother had lost earlier that day
M7EM7 TIL the noted children’s author, Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends; The Giving Tree), also wrote the lyrics to Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue,” as well as many other chart topping songs for Waylon Jennings and Loretta Lynn 🤠
E1YLX TIL in Norway, everyone's salary is public record and available online.
awWKZ TIL in 2012 three anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old nun, managed to break into an US government nuclear complex, paint anti-war slogans on the enriched uranium storage building, and spend several hours in the complex before being stopped by a lone guard.
yQeGe TIL that the first meal eaten on the moon was bacon, peaches, and grapefruit juice