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TIL vanilla comes from an orchid

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OoKn6 TIL some streets in Old San Juan, PR are paved with blue cobblestones, called adoquines, and were made from the waste, or slag, that resulted from iron smelting, then cast into blocks and brought to the island as ballasts in the bottoms of 18th-century Spanish ships.
WkWML TIL that in 1985 two bodies were discovered in a barrel in Bear Brook National Park, New Hampshire. 300 feet away was a second barrel containing two more bodies from the same murder, but it was not discovered until 15 years later in 2000. All four bodies remained unidentifiable until 2019.
oRAK7 TIL the misunderstood lyrics you sing are known as a Mondegreen.
N7NGQ TIL: Of the Four colour theorem. You only need 4 colours to colour any 2D map so that no two adjacent regions have the same colour.
yXOJ TIL Heineken developed squared beer bottles to be used as bricks. The plan was to eliminate waste on beaches and provide building materials to the Caribbean market.