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TIL that a carrot farmer trying to cut back food waste (over half of carrots produced are too ugly for grocery shelves) carved & created the first batch of ‘baby carrots’ using a green bean cutter. 30 years later, these carrots account for 70 percent of all carrot sales

ANLEn TIL that Stephen Lee was one of three anti-Apartheid activists who escaped from Pretoria Prison in 1979. In 1980, the warden in charge that night was put on trial for aiding their escape. Lee wrote a letter to a South African newspaper proclaiming his innocence. The warden was eventually acquitted.
76nZ TIL Jean-Claude Romand pretended to work for the World Health Organization, fooling friends and family for 18 years. Instead of working, he hid in hotels to study medicine and maps of countries he claimed to visit. When afraid of being exposed, he killed his entire family and burned down his house.
AD95d TIL of "slow television"—live, nonstop TV coverage of an ordinary event in its complete length. Slow TV was popularized by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's 7-hour broadcast of the train ride from Bergen to Oslo in 2009, and a 134-hour broadcast of the MS Nordnorge's coastal voyage in 2011.
W4Kd TIL That Sean Connery once fought and won against six gang members after they tried to mug him. The gang gave him great respect after the defeat and Connery became known as a “hard man”.
J1y9m TIL that the state of Alaska has a secessionist party and that one of their members was the governor of Alaska from 1990 to 1994.