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TIL; Forest Bathing (shinrin-yoku) can improve your health and wellbeing

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m1JaR TIL The Macintosh was named after McIntosh apple. The name was misspelled on purpose to avoid conflict with a manufacturer called McIntosh Laboratory.
Z9WQ TIL: You can tell how hot a jalapeno is by looking for stretch marks.
dByr TIL of Andy George, a man who spent 6 months hand growing and raising every ingredient to make a sandwich. After a rough cost of $1,500, he says it was the pickles and mayo that threw off the final product.
Z8KrQ TIL: Romans used geese as guard animals.
8aeJa TIL after Nietzsche's death his sister Elisabeth curated and edited his manuscripts, reworking Nietzsche's unpublished writings to fit her own German nationalist ideology while often contradicting or distorting his stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism.