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TIL: Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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TIL that Priests at Haridwar, India have been maintaining Bahi Khata (Genealogy register) of families which have records spanning around 2000 years and they are able to search them pretty accurately in about 5-7 minutes.
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TIL that 99% of the wasabi consumed in the world is not actually wasabi, it’s horseradish + green food colouring. Real wasabia japonica is one of the most expensive crops to grow and is a temperamental semiaquatic herb native to the mountain streams of central Japan.
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TIL that there is a bird called the Cream Coloured Woodpecker, also known as the Pikachu Bird. Males have the same colouration as Pikachu including the red cheeks. These birds are found in South America.
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TIL the world's oldest terrarium / sealed bottle ecosystem has been thriving since 1960. The 10-gallon bottle is like a mini Earth. It has only been opened once in 53 years to add a bit more water (in 1972). Otherwise it has been sealed without fresh water or air.
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TIL that Rob Gronkowski never spent any of his NFL salary money and lived strictly off of endorsements