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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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8GbG TIL that after a nuclear disaster in Japan in 1999, the operating company declined government funds and paid compensation itself based not on a legal liability but rather its moral responsibility.”
RGd9 TIL the stunt coordinator of Deliverance felt a canoe scene with a dummy in it looked too phony. After reshooting the scene with himself in the canoe, Burt Reynolds, coughing up water and nursing a broken coccyx, asked how the scene looked. The director responded, “like a canoe with a dummy in it.”
eAj5 TIL that there is an ancient site in Salem,NH with a stonehenge-esque structure that lines up perfectly with the real Stonehenge in England.
grlrb TIL that Colonel Sanders used to be a lawyer until he got into a physical fight with his own client during a trial
WkG89 TIL a 1485 poem describes the knight who killed Richard III as having 'shaved the boar's head.' This was thought to be a metaphor for beheading until his bones were discovered. The back of Richard III's skull had been sliced off. According to a French chronicler, it had been done with a halberd.