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TIL there are more than 3,800 types of potato in Peru

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mx64E TIL Loretta Lynn's Song "Coal Miner's Daughter" is 100% a true story. The song describes her dad working all night in the coal mine and hoeing corn all day. Her father really was "a coal miner and subsistence farmer," and she really was born in Butcher Hollow, KY.
rN5g0 TIL depression can and has been transferred from humans to mice through gut microbiome
84aL TIL Douglas Bader was a legless flying ace (RAF) in WW2 . His success was partly because of his having no legs; pilots pulling high “g-forces” in combat often “blacked out” as the flow of blood from the brain to other body parts, usually the legs. As he had no legs he could remain conscious longer.
0Amy TIL Bill Murray did the voice of Garfield, whose voice was done by Lorenzo Music in the cartoon. Lorenzo Music did the voice of Murray’s character in the Ghostbusters cartoon
6aaw TIL There is an old English unit of volume called a “butt”, approx 477L. There is such a thing as a “butt load”.