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TIL Clementines can be used as candles.
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TIL The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (STFU) was a federation of tenant farmers formed in July 1934 in Poinsett County with the immediate aim of reforming the crop-sharing system of sharecropping and tenant farming.
vPB7
TIL there was a plant whose seeds acted as a highly-effective morning-after pill, until it was harvested to extinction
9YD77
TIL about Utah’s ‘otherworldly’ Cinamon Hadley — ballerina, goth queen and comic book character. The woman who inspired the look of the DC Comics character known as DEATH, by creator Neil Gaiman.
BwjK
TIL that crows pass the ‘marshmallow test’: they resist the temptation to eat a food if they know a tastier treat is coming later. This test of self-control is used to assess mental development in humans.
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TIL there are ancient Asian shipwrecks in Washington state. Bonus TIL: When explorers travelled the Columbia River, they found Japanese sailors