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TIL that there is a Polish soup called czernina that's made with duck blood and other ingredients. Traditionally, this soup was served to men who were rejected after asking for permission to wed their significant other.

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9wP87 TIL New Zealand is only 6% of an underwater continent of nearly 5 million square kilometres (two-thirds the size of Australia, and larger than western Europe). That continent separated from the supercontinent of Gondwana between 85 million and 60 million years ago.
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bjOj TIL by using more pressure than found in earth’s core, scientists at Germany’s Bayerisches Geoinstitut made diamond gemstones from peanut butter. Scientist Dan Frost noted that the hydrogen that’s bonded to the peanut butter’s carbon makes the process messier and that the process is slow.