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TIL there are over 40,000 varieties of cultivated rice in the world

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GY4wg TIL The tallest woman in recorded history is alleged to be the Dutch Trijntje Cornelisdochter Keever: standing at 2.54 metres (8 ft 4 in) tall at the time of her death at age seventeen.
DQmZg TIL that when St. Pancras Station in London was inaugurated by Queen Victoria in 1868, its 210m long, 73m wide and 30m high train shed was the largest enclosed space in the world. The single-span iron and glass roof engineering marvel was designed by William Henry Barlow.
DQoQr TIL A Japanese researcher took his own life after his research revealed the presence of Fireblight in native pear trees, resulting in a government cover-up and him being blamed by farmers for their lost revenue
VAD4 TIL that in a 2004 study, Chinese women who ate mushrooms and drank green tea reduced their risk of breast cancer by nearly 90%
8drV TIL That Joshua Sawyer, the project director and lead designer of Fallout: New Vegas personally created a mod for New Vegas that fixed some major oversights made by the developers due to the incredibly short development cycle of the game, which is speculated to have only been 18 months.