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TIL that it’s illegal to grow the maca vegetable outside of Peru.

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aWYo TIL of “White Death”, a Finnish sniper in WW2, who holds the record for the most confirmed kills (505) in any major war. When asked what he felt when killing an enemy soldier, he responded, “The recoil.”
rRdNw TIL it takes the Sun 226 million years to completely orbit around the center of the Milky Way.
gy9D TIL Portland drained 38 million gallons of treated water because a drunk teen urinated in it.
KON0E TIL Clitoridectomies (surgical removal of the clitoris) were performed in the United States into the 1960s to treat, among other things, "lesbianism."
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