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TIL that according to data from the Aspen Institute of Play and the Utah State University’s Families in Sports Lab, the most expensive kids’ sport is ice hockey, which has an annual cost of $2,583 on average in the United States

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b6YJ7 TIL that the US supreme court building has a statue of Prophet Muhammad, In 1997 Chief Justice William Rehnquist rejected the Muslim council's request to remove the statue saying it was intended only to recognize him as an important figure in the history of law and not as a form of idol worship
nendr TIL the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character"); the resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental.
99NX TIL of the “suicide palm” recently discovered in Madagascar that flowers itself to death. The plant grows for decades before exploding with nectar-rich blossoms that deplete the plant’s nutrients and cause it to die
6yWX TIL that the Roman Emperor Valentinian got so mad at Quadi envoys who blamed the Romans for a recent war between the two that he burst a blood vessel in his skull and died while yelling at them.
dDWgj TIL that "seed laws" are a thing, where you can't use seeds from a plant you bought