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TIL that milky liquid in dandelions is latex.

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6V98 TIL In 1991 an experiment was carried out involving 5,000 people and one game of Pong, which demonstrated the potential power of the hive mind.
W7NbX TIL that Iceland and the UK directly fought against each other in the "Cod Wars" intermittently from the 1950s to the 1970s. This was despite both states being members of NATO.
GAv5E TIL many years before WW2 or even WW1, Germany had a concentration camp on an island off the coast of Namibia.
RD8l TIL that Patrick Stewart has said that playing Jean-Luc Picard changed him as a person. “…I suppose [he] even had some influence on me. I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean-Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.”
VMNyp Today I learned that there are 72 million babies born around the world this year alone and we have not even reached the end of the year!