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TIL Hummus has gotten so popular, tobacco farmers have switched to growing chickpeas to meet demand.

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OQna TIL that during WW1 Marie Curie attempted to donate her Gold Nobel prize medals for the war effort but the French National Bank refused to accept them.
Nv6e TIL some species of carpenter ants can explode at will. As a last resort they contract their abs to rupture their internal glands, resulting in a suicidal burst of corrosive, immobilizing glue.
PMXV TIL that due to J. Edgar Hoover’s excessive abuse of power, Directors of the FBI are now limited to 10 years in office.
LGmQ TIL Ed Smith created a fake student called George Burdell when Georgia Tech sent him two enrolment forms by mistake. He signed Burdell up for all his classes and did all his work twice with minor changes so teachers wouldn’t catch him. The school awarded Burdell a bachelor’s and a master’s degree.
WL4N TIL that during medieval inquisitions , after you were accused, but before anything else happened , you were required to name anybody who hated you , if even one of the people who you named was actually your accuser, you were immediately set free , and you could name as many people as you wanted.