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Z8A1G TIL that red grapefruits were created by growing grapefruit trees next to radioactive material, mutating their DNA to make them more desirable
grjRD TIL that Kudzu otherwise known as Japanese Arrowroot is actually edible. It is also used medicinally in Eastern countries. (PSA, do not eat wild Kudzu especially in the south in South America as it has a chance to have been treated with pesticides, only consume it if you grew it yourself)
vP6Vj Today I Learned that male Spiders eat females too.
e1Vk TIL that 25% of US Presidents were raised without a father.
wo0D8 TIL Sojourner Truth's first language was Dutch, and her famous "Ain't I A Woman" speech was rewritten to sound more stereotypically Black