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TIL that the average private school teacher makes $14,000 less per year than the average public school teacher

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ZNaG TIL that Szechuan Sauce comes from the Asian Sichuan peppercorn which was banned in the US from 1968 to 2005 because it carried canker bacteria. The FDA lifted the ban provided that the peppercorns were heated to to kill any bacteria before import. The bacteria was only harmful to other crops.
xVMQ0 TIL that writing a giant SOS on a beach has the added advantage of being an ambigram: SOS can be read right side up or upside down
wLEdo TIL that blue eyes don’t have blue pigment and are instead blue for the same reason that water and the sky are blue: they scatter light so that only blue light reflects out
Vao8 TIL that the original version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” included the line “It may be your last.”
VJ4D TIL the crew aboard the USS midway pushed $10 million worth of helicopters into the sea to allow a Cessna full of evacuees to safely land