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TIL that many women from the victorian era made jewelry from insects

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rRjD4 TIL that from 1748-1772, potatoes were illegal in France. French people did not trust the new food as they grew underground, and were thought to spread diseases such as leprosy.
OGyx7 TIL about a plant that can 'walk' up to 20 meters per year: The Socratea exorrhiza, or the "walking palm," can slowly move itself to better locations.
Y70Jd TIL that Making Predictions Impedes the Formation of Memories.Trying to predict what is going to happen next in any given moment impedes your brain’s ability to encode your current moment in memory.
DQARj TIL about the Darién Gap, the Panama/Colombia border where no paved roads are built. This gap of densely packed marshland bisects the Pan-American Highway, cutting South and North American off from having a contiguous highway route across the two continents.
V7eZ TIL Sir Hugh Beaver, of the Guinness Breweries, got into an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe. There was no book in the world with which to settle arguments about records and questions debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland. Guinness World Records was born.