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TIL that in 1931, Gödel, a 25 year old mathematician, showed that there is a gaping hole at the bottom of mathematics. Simply put, there are things that are true that mathematics can never prove to be true.

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e0mvJ TIL that there is such thing as Cotton Candy grapes that legitimately taste like cotton candy and involves no genetic engineering or artificial flavors
BObe TIL there is a whiskey boom in the state of Washington. Coupled with its more lax distilling laws, WA is very similar to Scotland with its wet, temperate climate and arable coastal locations that make for an ideal place to grow barley for whiskey.
wLZaY TIL about the last place on earth where orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers still live together in the wild - the Leuser ecosystem in Indonesia. It spans 6 million acres (about 3 times the size of Yellowstone). And it’s heavily endangered from deforestation & human activities/encroachment
d8pNK TIL that ethinlyestradiol (EE2) can cause impaired sexual differentiation in male embryos. Said embryos are intersex, genetically male but physically female.
v1DpD TIL of the Mid Night Club who would race on Tokyo's highways in excess of 200 mph in highly modified street cars.