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TIL if a cow eats the white snakeroot plant its milk becomes poisonous. The "milk sickness" that comes from drinking it killed thousands of people in the 19th century US.

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4kgPX TIL cormorant and pelican guano harvested from islands off the coast of Peru and Chile was used in the Inca highlands to boost agricultural output. The Inca created what the first known animal conservation scheme to safeguard the birds' breeding grounds with violations punishable by death
oa7r TIL that Freud actually named the id, the ego and the superego the It, the I and the Over-I, which were more or less self-explanatory, but his translator latinized them, making them less accessible.
gMVAL TIL that Alessandra Mussolini, the daughter of Axis dictator Benito Mussolini, is Sophia Loren's niece, released a #1 pop record in Japan, appeared in topless in Playboy, has acted in a dozen films, and has been a member of Parliament since 1992
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ABZl TIL: Walmart uses 22 shell companies to avoid paying taxes.