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TIL that seedless watermelons are not genetically engineered.

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4XrMJ TIL, although the narrator begins Moby Dick with the famous opening, "Call me Ishmael," he is not stating his actual name. Rather he is briefly representing his back story with that of Ishmael from the book of Genesis, who was the cast-out son of Abraham born to a slave woman named Hagar.
a8JwJ TIL the rufous treepie, a bird in the raven family, has learned to steal lit candles from a temple in India. The candles use clarified butter for fuel so the treepies fly inside, grab one and fly away. Then they remove the wick and extinguish it before eating it and the butter.
m9vM TIL that to save money in taxes, Marvel successfully argued in court that the X-Men, and mutants in general, did not qualify as human, directly contradicting one of the main themes of the comics.
8ekLX TIL that in the US state of Florida, tyramine is a Schedule I drug, illegal in “any material [at] any quantity,” making most wines, cheeses, and chocolates, among other things, technically illegal.
Z5vG TIL India is considered the “pharmacy of the developing world” and delivers affordable medicines to poor people all around the world by exporting 50% of of its $10bn annual generic medicine production.