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TIL that Dandelions are edible. I actually ate one today and it tasted like sugar. Can't believe I never knew this.

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W7jQo TIL in the 1960s, Aussie athlete Reg Spiers mailed himself home from London to Australia in a wooden crate to make it back for his daughter’s birthday. He endured delays, extreme heat, and flipped upside down in Bombay. Once in Perth, he broke out of a storage shed, hitched a ride, and made it home.
XE7DQ TIL the female backing singer during Elvis's infamous "laughing" version of Lonesome Tonight, who keeps singing as Elvis struggles to regain his composure because of it, was Cissa Houston, Whitney Houston's mother
NWAQ TIL that there was once a type of dog called the Turnspit dog which would run in a wheel to turn meat so it would cook evenly. The breed went extinct when machines were invented to turn the meat instead.
neNrB TIL that Nigeria has a space program and has successfully launched several satellites into orbit.
yV0xe TIL the ex-president of Argentina Carlos Menem was raised as a Muslim, but later converted to Roman Catholicism to pursue a political career.