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TIL that horseshoe crab blood, costing $60,000 per gallon, is unique and is integral in FDA testing. This has led to a massive effort by scientists to try to conserve this invaluable resource.

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NAZe TIL that Thomas Edison never invented a bulb it was Nicola Tesla who created it. Edison just marketed the bulb and got credit.Nicola used to work for edison in his early career.
M7JoK TIL - Despite soccer's relative lack of popularity in the USA, the 1994 FIFA World Cup was the most financially successful in World Cup history. It broke tournament records with overall attendance of 3,587,538 and an average of 68,991 per game, figures that stand unsurpassed as of 2022.
DQY1J TIL that Gac fruit(fruit from heaven) has 70 times more lycopene than tomatoes, 40 times more vitamin C than oranges and 10 times more beta carotene than carrots. It is an orange spiked melon like fruit grown on vines that is native to Asia. Typically used to make a traditional red sticky rice dish
yVQPa TIL in Rwanda on the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means "Community Work".
BlDy TIL that from 1808 to 1821, the capital of Portugal was moved to Rio de Janeiro, making it the only European country to have been ruled from its colonies.