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TIL that a plant named aconitum can easily kill people, be cautious while hiking

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E18Qo TIL that due to internet rumors and some media articles, some folks eat fruit/veggie UPC codes intentionally. Mistaking the idea that “It’s ok to accidentally consume a sticker” for “the FDA regulates them and the stickers have nutritional value.”
8aXlZ TIL that, in 1922, Governor of Indiana Warren McCray was offered $10,000 to allow the Ku Klux Klan to become chartered, but refused, the Klan later claimed he was involved in mail fraud, causing McCray to be found guilty and serve three years in prison, when he was paroled and later given a pardon
MYLA TIL that in from the 1880s to the 1900s, pollution caused by horses was so severe, the presence of the (then unheard of) automobile was regarded as a saviour, as it did not pollute the streets with manure, urine and dead horses.
R7o6l TIL the man who tried to kidnap Britain's Princess Anne in 1974 is still locked away in a psychiatric hospital "At Her Majesty's pleasure" 45 years later.
BgRXk TIL about ''Orange, Red, Yellow'', a painting that sold for $86,882,500