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TIL Demand for quinoa in Western nations has pushed up prices to such an extent that poorer people in Peru and Bolivia, where quinoa is from, can no longer afford their staple crop

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wom91 TIL all the gold ever mined on Earth came from meteorites - not from the Earth's core.
OoDQg TIL Twice as many soldiers died from disease than battle injuries during the American Civil War. Dysentery and chronic diarrhea were so prevalent that there was an honor code among soldiers – you couldn’t shoot a man while he was pooping.
ORAe TIL: Black Entertainment Television (BET) Is owned by a white guy (Sumner Redstone)
D59j TIL that as a child, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped in a Comanche raid. 24 years later, she’d married a chief and had three children, including Quanah Parker the last free Comanche chief. She was “rescued” by Texas Rangers at 34 and spent 10 years trying to escape before starving herself to death.
QJJB9 Next time: Slow and steady.