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TIL it is not safe to drink coyote pee

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oBe7E TIL that Sam Houston, the general who led Texas to victory in its war for independence from Mexico & who served as its president during its 10 years of independence, was removed from office as Governor of Texas when it seceded in 1861, after refusing to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy.
x6VD5 TIL: Web 3.0 was originally meant to be a semantic web, making the internet machine readable.
ep4k6 TIL that the production team of "Elf" (2003) approached Macy’s to use their store for the film, but Macy’s declined as they didn’t like the idea that there was a fake Santa working in the store. Instead, the department store scenes were shot in the cafeteria of a mental hospital in Vancouver.
xglb TIL that baseball player Gaylord Perry’s manager once remarked that “They’ll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run.”. On July 20, 1969, just an hour after the Apollo 11 spacecraft carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Perry hit the first home run of his career
69NNm TIL of Armand Gagné, a peasant boy who was adopted by Marie Antoinette. After her carriage almost ran over the 5-year-old, she became so delighted with his appearance that she took him with her. The boy did not want to go and wished to stay with his family but she forcibly adopted him anyway.