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TIL of the Potato Park. A seed bank in Peru, it is managed by Indigenous communities and focuses on Andean crops and plants. It specialises in potatoes, and houses samples of 2300 of the 4000 varieties in the world

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yVbrJ TIL in 1900 William Schmidt, a gold miner, began hand-digging a half-mile tunnel in the Mojave Desert to transport ore for processing. After 20 years the ore could easily be transported on a new road, but Schmidt spent another two decades years finishing the tunnel, which was never used.
aYKM TIL the Orange County, FL School District, that had previously allowed outside religious groups to hand out Bibles to school kids, completely reversed that policy after the Satanic Temple requested the right to hand out copies of “The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities” under the same policy
B0jk TIL that the claim that banana flavoring is based on a type of banana that was wiped out and so tastes different than today’s bananas is likely just a myth
6XWX TIL, after winning one of the most famous dogfights of WWII, a Japanese fighter pilot managed to fly over 4 hours back to base despite being blind and paralyzed down the entire left side of his body from enemy fire; he endured and survived emergency surgery without anesthesia immediately afterward.
WkNaA TIL Julie Kavner (Marge) has appeared in all episodes of The Simpsons except one, which she boycotted due to the excessive use of celebrity voices. Marge is seen but not heard.