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TIL that Texas seceded from Mexico because slavery was illegal in Mexico

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jgDn TIL a man was fined $10,000 for illegally dumping in a national park after authorities matched the time stamp on a McDonalds receipt with CCTV footage of him ordering at the drive-thru.
xVbJb TIL that in 1978, a year after smallpox was eradicated worldwide, the virus escaped from the lab of professor Henry Bedson. It infected two last patients, including the last person to ever die of smallpox. Bedson, who had been working to rid the world of smallpox, killed himself the next day.
nbZ7 TIL that in a blind test taste Pepsi activated more dopamine receptors than Coca-Cola. However once participants were told they were drinking Coke, it then became the greater dopamine producing beverage over Pepsi – even when lied to. Most likely it was Coke’s marketing that was responsible.
Ve6Z TIL that because Ken Jennings is a practicing Mormon, he tithes his earnings on “Jeopardy!” to the Church of Latter Day Saints. This means that his church received approximately $250,000 for his record 74-game winning streak alone.
4kB0b TIL that, in 1604, King James I wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’, in which he described smoking as a ‘custome lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs