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TIL potatoes yield 17.8 million calories per acre, so you could feed a family of four on less than 1/4 acre (www.waldeneffect.org)
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TIL “☪️OE✡️IS✝️” was designed by a Piotr Mlodozeniec for a contest held by an art museum in Jerusalem. The design gained popularity when Indians students trademarked it and sold it on shirts. Their... (www.vox.com)
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TIL Six years after surviving a shark attack and following repeated appeals to South Australian authorities, Chris Blowes finally won a special exemption that gave him the legal right to possession... (www.bbc.com)
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TIL that Venus flytraps can count the number of times an insect touches their trigger hairs, helping them optimize their response for energy conservation and effective digestion. (www.bbc.co.uk)
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TIL of the .22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer, a rifle cartridge designed for its projectile to exceed 5000 feet per second. It is based on a .378 Weatherby cartrige necked down to .22 caliber. It neve... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson fight was supposed to have been held in Las Vegas. Nevada however refused to grant Tyson a licence, after he got involved in a brawl at the press conference. (wikipedia.org)
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TIL The actor who played Random Task in Austin Powers was sentenced to 7 years for torture (SA) and a further 27 years for murdering his cell mate whilst incarcerated (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about structural colouration. ‘Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Georgia Tann, the “creator” of adoption, started by stealing babies from the poor and selling them to prominent socialites making millions in the process. (historydaily.org)
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TIL about how scientists taught monkeys the concept of money. Not long after, the first prostitute monkey appeared. (www.zmescience.com)
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TIL In some places in history counterfeitting coins was punishable with being boiled alive in oil (www.wikipedia.org)
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TIL a Polish charity placed a tracker on the back of a white stork to track the birds migratory habits. It travelled to Sudan before the charity lost contact. Somebody found the tracker, removed th... (www.bbc.com)
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