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

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nedl7 TIL Members of Phish & Allman Brothers formed a band that still exists called Vida Blue, named after the 1971 Cy Young Winner; He Appeared w/ the band for their Live Album at The Fillmore in SF in 2004.
e0BgE TIL Vietnam is building its first 2 metro systems: one in Hanoi (capital) with Chinese funding/money and the other in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) with Japanese expertise. Hanoi's is progressing more quickly but has had multiple accidents, one deadly. HCM City's has had more delays but no accidents.
4bya TIL people suffering depression tend to literally dream less.
GYoQ4 TIL Research shows that parents who want their children to cut back on screen-time must cut back on screen-time themselves
Noe6 TIL of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after flirting with a white woman. His killers were acquitted of the crime and later admitted to the murder. Till’s mother had an open-casket funeral to display the injustice, helping spur the civil rights movement.