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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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KOZGQ TIL that Peter Falk lost his right eye at the age of three because of cancer. He wore a fake eye for the rest of his life, which gave him his trademark squint.
ldr1 TIL that on this day in 1987, two Chicago tv stations were hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
BrLOr TIL that in the original opening sequence of The Simpsons, when Maggie is scanned in the check-out, the cash register briefly reads $847.63 which was the monthly cost of raising a baby in America in 1989.
Wpy9 TIL that in 1936 a patent for a “flying saucer” called Aerodina Lenticulara was applied for. The same inventor is also credited by some with the world first jet in 1910. In 1905, he also built a missile-aeroplane for the Romanian Army.
E1OQ7 TIL Fang Xiaoru, who refused to serve the Emperor Yongle who usurped his nephew, was executed by 'waist severing' and wrote the character 'usurper' 12 times with his own blood after being cut in half.