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TIL Sweet Potatoes are not actually potatoes, but more closely related to Morning Glory

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mnrE TIL that when Montana imposed speed limits on former No Limit roads, traffic fatalities doubled.
WrZY TIL Valentine’s day remembers Saint Valentine, who was arrested, beaten by clubs, and beheaded for refusing to stop performing marriages
PaPn TIL the native americans planted corn, beans, and squash together so that they would benefit eachother. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil that the other plants utilize, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds
RQKj TIL that Texas has the lowest high school graduation rate. It’s also the only state to be below 80%.
M715a TIL that despite its cultural presence as the doomsday scenario, current models and estimates believe that a nuclear winter is not a realistic outcome following a nuclear war. One analysis said so many successive things would need to go wrong it was akin to a coin landing on heads 40 times straight