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TIL that a shrimps heart is located in its HEAD :O

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e0VpL TIL about "Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management," an extensive guide to running a household in Victorian Britain, published in 1861. It recommends boiling pasta for an hour and forty-five minutes and states that potatoes are "suspicious; a great many are narcotic, and many are deleterious."
x6eMw TIL that famous jazz drummer Art Blakey briefly converted to Islam in the 1940s and led a "turbaned, Qur'an-reading jazz band called the 17 Messengers".
JWZk TIL middle names became a necessity during the middle ages because there were too many people with the same name and populations had risen exponentially, “The great cities on the planet earth were only a fraction of their size hundreds of years ago.”
9y4X TIL China has been producing fake chicken eggs since the 90s. The production cost is less than half of a real egg. They are made from a mixture of resin, starch, coagulant and pigments, while algae gives them proper viscosity. The shell is made from paraffin wax, gypsum powder, and calcium carbonate
9wADM TIL That eggplants, tomatoes and avocados are botanically classified as berries but that a strawberry is not a berry at all.