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TIL Cilantro and Coriander are the same

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5Y7KR TIL of Morganna the Kissing Bandit, a very well-endowed stripper who made her name by ambushing and kissing (on the cheek) famous athletes on the field. When charged with trespassing at an Astros game, her lawyer got her off by arguing that her chest made her lose balance and fall over the fence.
wPkY TIL that European nutella has a stronger chocolatey aroma, and is different from American nutella
QN7d9 TIL about 7% of the people who have ever lived are alive today
xo5b TIL In 1883, a writer attempted to make a Portuguese-to-English phrasebook - despite not knowing English himself. Popularized in America by Mark Twain, “English As She Is Spoke” is filled with such nonsensical English idioms as “to craunch the marmoset” and “to buy cat in pocket.”
VMjBD TIL that Henry Ford had initially lead the movement of shorter working weeks from the entrepreneurial side of things. He (counterintuitively at the time) showed that shorter working hours led to higher productivity.