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TIL Japan has a process to clean and check eggs for safety that allows them to be eaten raw, without getting salmonella

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DQXAe TIL about the Boquila trifoliolata, also called the chameleon vine. It is the only plant known to engage in mimetic polymorphism, it can mimic the leaves of multiple host plants. Once the vines approach a host tree, the leaves begin to change their size, shape, color,... to match the host plant
6Ex88 TIL that San Marino is obliged to use Italy's mint, and is forbidden to cultivate tobacco. In exchange for these limitations, Italy provides San Marino an annual stipend of 250 tonnes of sea salt, 40 tonnes of tobacco and 20 tonnes of cigarettes.
7nDb TIL You aren’t supposed to wear white after Labor Day due to an old fashion rule made by rich women to separate “Old Money” people from “New Money” people.
PY7MG TIL after the Suez Canal was completed, species from the Red Sea used it to migrate to the Mediterranean and became invasive. This phenomenon is called the Lessepsian migration, after the builder of the Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps
b6gB0 TIL not long after the Vietnam War, Vietnam’s army invaded Cambodia and stopped a genocide.