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TIL 25 poisonous plants & flowers you might have at your house

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knj7 TIL that the “homeless man with a golden voice”, Ted Williams, is now homeless again and “owns nothing.”
LklKQ TIL Charles Darwin wrote a pros and cons of marriage ( including the positivity of “female chit-chat) before marrying his cousin
7rvgb TIL The song '(She's a) Brick House' was written after the band (The Commodores) couldn't come up with lyrics to the funky riff. The wife of the record's producer wrote the lyrics one night and the band loved it. She never got official credit but the band has publicly acknowledged her as the writer
e0emD TIL Blu-ray Discs use blue lasers to read and write to the disc as opposed to the traditional red, which allows for substantially more data to be stored due the the blue light's shorter wavelength
YpjMx TIL before 'The Addams Family' movie, actor Carl Struycken resembled the original Lurch so much that instead of a casting call, he had a meeting with the director and producer. The producer let him know he got the part by saying, "Well, that's what you're going to be for the rest of your life."