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TIL peanuts grow in a bunch, underground, like potatoes!

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x6jpB TIL JERRY SEINFELD is 69 years old!
rMQw TIL in Victorian London it was theorized that diseases like Cholera (which killed tens of thousands) were spread by bad-smelling air, until a scientist named Jon Snow determined water was the culprit - he became known as the father of modern epidemiology.
G0E4 TIL in 1915 a raisin company executive spotted a teenage girl drying her curly brown hair and wearing her mother’s red bonnet and hired her for a stunt promotion that had her dropping raisins from an airplane. Soon she became the company’s first mascot called, “Sun Maid.”
WkNRB TIL Billie Holiday gave her final performance in New York City on May 25, 1959. Not long after this event, Holiday was admitted to the hospital for heart and liver problems. She was so addicted to heroin that she was even arrested for possession while in the hospital.
E11d0 TIL that to get Tyrian Purple, you had to boil thousands of snails just to get a few grams of pure dye of it.