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TIL ghosts saying 'boo!' originated from Scotland

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xDG7 TIL that the little dangling pieces of skin on the underside of your tongue serve no purpose whatsoever.
JYxbm TIL Michael Phelps’ body produces half the normal amount of lactic acid of his competitors. Causing his body to fatigue much slower.
MLN8 TIL in 1926 a Pasadena mailman planted some avocado seeds intending to graft with the desirable Fuerte variety. The graft repeatedly failed on one tree and he was going to cut it down, but was advised to “wait and see what happens”. It became the mother tree from which all Hass avocados originate.
nWjGr TIL that during WW2, German pilots in North Africa would wrap Coca-Cola bottles in wet towels and attach them to the wings before takeoff, so that it would be cold when they landed and needed a drink.
wJwo TIL that the colony of Georgia was founded with four prohibitions: no Catholics, no liquor, no lawyers, no slaves.