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TIL in Japan when you finish reading the Mainichi newspaper you can plant it. It's pages consist of recycled paper, water and seeds of flowers and herb

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5yMB TIL Frank Zappa’s Grammy-winning album Jazz from Hell received a “Parental Advisory” sticker even though it is a collection of instrumental pieces and contains no lyrics at all.
9agQ TIL in 2016, it was discovered that Beyonce’s “Empower Women” clothing line was made by women sweat shop labourers working on less than £5 a day.
wLJpP TIL about the Memphis Peabody Marching Ducks. Every day at 11am they saunter down a red carpet to the hotel's water fountain, hang out for 6 hours then saunter back up to the rooftop. They've been doing this for over 30 years.
x618w TIL: in 1964 the U.S. ceded land to Mexico. A boundary dispute caused by the changing course of the Rio Grande near El Paso was resolved by the Chamizal Treaty which ceded land north of the river to Mexico and some Mexican land to the U.S. They agreed to rechannel the river so it won't happen again.
5RMD TIL - A man made a pain scale after being stung or bitten by over 80 different species of insects. The descriptions really bring it home.