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Today I learned Vanilla bean plants are actually orchids

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M7OZb TIL Miranda Gibson lived on a small platform 60 metres above the ground in a 400-year-old Eucalyptus tree to protect the surrounding forest. A bush fire forced her to evacuate after 449 days but Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area was officially extended by 170,000 hectares a few months later.
wLdjY TIL that the profane Hungarian response to being given an unreasonably heavy workload is "bekergettek tatott szajjal a faszerdobe," or “They chased me into the dick-forest with a wide open mouth”
rxey TIL blackcurrant flavour is almost unknown in America because blackcurrant can spread disease to pine trees so was banned for most of the 20th century
Mln8 TIL that there’s a large black stain at the back of the chair, which everybody assumes is Lincoln’s blood , but that’s not the case. Research on the stain has shown that it’s hair oil. Some of the other stains are water damage.
wLXYo TIL In 1895 an Irish man killed his wife because he thought she was a Changeling whom fairies had swapped with his real wife.