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TIL about the “Magic 8”. Before 1491, corn, beans, squash, chili, tomato, potato, vanilla, and cacao weren’t found anywhere in the world outside of the Americas.

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awQv9 TIL: People with the sickle cell mutation have crescent (sickle) shaped blood cells that provide resistance against malaria.
m1lDx TIL the very first case where John E Reid used his interrogation methods, which is widely used throughout North America today, got a false confession from a suspect for murder. Which later cost the state of Nebraska $500,000 after the real killer confessed.
DQ5De TIL there are 5 general foot shapes and there are positives and negatives to each shape.
R5Lw4 TIL of "Belle Chase John Doe", an unidentified 17-year-old suicide victim whose note requested that the police make no attempt to identify him. All records and information on the case was lost during a hurricane.
neaJ9 TIL that in the making of the documentary film “They Shall Not Grow Old”, Peter Jackson’s crew visually restored 100 hours of Imperial War Museum WWI footage for free “just to get their archive in better shape”.