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TIL Cannabis (hemps or weed) is one of the closest living relatives to roses, both being in the Rosales clade

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mxn7E TIL legendary Peanuts comic strip creator Charles Schultz died the day before his last original Peanuts strip was published
86g4 TIL in 1975, Leonard Nimoy published his autobiography I Am Not Spock. In 1995, he published a second volume: I AM Spock.
eayD TIL that Teddy Roosevelt once gave a speech immediately after an attempted assassination. He started the speech by saying “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
yljV TIL Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was extremely racist & founded the organization with the hope that “feeble-minded” minorities would leave reproduction to “more suitable” races.
NZbM TIL that Ronaldinho’s commercial deal with Coca-Cola was terminated after he was caught drinking Pepsi at a press conference.