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TIL Craisins are not dried cranberries (like raisins are dried grapes) they are in fact discarded cranberry husks re-infused with juice.

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R5W18 TIL We have at least a 50/50 chance, if we could travel there today, of finding at least some form of primitive life on a planet (K2-18B) that is 124 lightyears away given markers in the atmosphere, JWST observations, and the chemical and physical parameters of the planet in relation to it's star.
gM0pW TIL of Qin Shi Huang the 1st emperor of China. Obsessed with immortality he sent out quests for magicians & searched for powerful mountains to give him long life. Reportedly, he died from poisoning due to ingesting mercury pills, made by his physicians believing it to be an elixir of immortality.
dePB TIL that Vermont (42% gun ownership rate) had the lowest rate of gun murders in 2010: only 2
j6Vej TIL More than one million Chinese soldiers crossed the Yalu River into North Korea during the Korean War and soldiers stayed for years afterwards to help with reconstruction and aid. However, the Chinese were told to avoid any close connection with North Koreans and not to mingle or make friends
R7VW8 TIL The meeting of presidents President Taft and Díaz in Mexico in 1909 was the first between a president of the United States and a president of Mexico. Because both presidents were bilingual there was no need for interpreters. No one else attended the meeting where they spent 20 minutes alone