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TIL That the US has a national Seed Bank.

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Yd5P TIL the wrestler Mick Foley became a fan of Tori Amos in 1993. After meeting her in 2008, he got involved in a group she started to aid abused women. He has volunteered extensively, fielding calls from women in difficult circumstances, and logged over 550 hours on the phone over an 18-month period.
d8aY7 TIL Texas is called The Lone Star State because when it was part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas, its flag bore two gold stars in the middle. When Texas declared its independence from Mexico they "took" one of the stars with them and Coahuila kept the other one.
PYj5O TIL the letter Y is not just "sometimes" a vowel. It is almost always a vowel. It is only a consonant around 2.5% of the time.
QJAX TIL that the HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA video is a part of a longer video, and that the actual video only has 315,000 views, while the version with just the song has over 20 million, and the version that’s a 5-hour loop has over 9 million.
9wn56 TIL not just coins are fished from the Trevi Fountain by the City of Rome. Workers have removed jewellery, dentures, religious medals and even umbilical cords.