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TIL that boiling beans with the epazoté herb greatly reduces the gas the beans create while digesting

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k9XW TIL in 1986, the United Way released 1.5 million balloons into the Cleveland sky to raise money for charity. The balloons were so thick that Coast Guard helicopters couldn’t reach an overtuned boat, resulting in the death of two fishermen.
MeEp0 TIL Leonardo Da Vinci was Ambidextrous. He could write, draw & paint with both hands simultaneously, resulting in a ‘Mirror Script’. Some Historians believe this was to hide his scientific ideas from the powerful Roman Catholic Church, or simply to prevent smudging.
0w8Q1 TIL In 1891 women throughout Victoria went door to door, gathering signatures for a women’s suffrage petition, which became known as the ‘Monster Petition'. The petition was approximately 260 metres long and contained nearly 30,000 signatures, including that of Jane Munro, the Premier’s wife.
rRjQw TIL that the Japanese planned an invasion of the Philippines in 1637 to stop Spanish expansionism but they were stopped at the last minute by a Christian rebellion
nWWNd TIL that there are 250 species of ants who are growing fungi. Some practice lower agriculture, harvesting implemented wild fungi, while others like the Leave Cutter Ants practice high agriculture, growing their own, fully domesticated fungi which are completely dependent on their ant farmers.