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TIL Australia has a tree so toxic that just touching its leaves can kill a person, or even a horse

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JYMp8 TIL Wario is named Wario because it's a portmanteau of the words 'Mario' and the Japanese word 'warui' (æ‚Șい), meaning "bad"- not because a W is an upside-down M to signify that he's Mario's evil counterpart.
GANVQ TIL Jerry Houser played Dave Killer Carson in Slapshot but is more recognizable as Marcia Brady's husband Wally Logan on FOUR separate Brady Bunch reunion shows/series. Even the original Marcia didn't make it for the last one!
oRv7o TIL that Ed Gein is buried in the same cemetery as his two murder victims, Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden
vP5BL TIL that the first American government issued quarter was released in 1796
9Yb8G TIL of the American singer/sonwriter Rodriguez who was massively famous in South-Africa and there were wild stories about how he died on stage. The doc "Searching for Sugar Man" tells this awesome story.