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TIL that baby carrots are just cut up pieces of normal carrots, and not a different plant.

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AN0Mo TIL that Republicans have won Alaska in all but one of the presidential elections it has participated in since it's admission to the Union, with the sole exception being when Lyndon Johnson carried the state in 1964. No state has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate fewer times.
GYPZJ NASA's offering online astronaut training (for kids) while you're stuck in lockdown.
Xl58 TIL the Great Famine of Ireland caused so many deaths, that Ireland’s population still has not recovered (even after 150 years)
e0KWE TIL: Research shows that people who buy electric cars prefer for their cars to look strange, indicating a big factor in picking out an electric car is the desire that everyone notices your car is an electric car.
ne7Lo TIL that American Civil War Union soldiers were issued 36 pounds of coffee a year and the word "coffee" appeared more in journal entries than "war," "bullet," "cannon," "slavery," "mother" or "Lincoln."