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TIL that both indica and sativa are scientific terms used In classifying rice. With oryza sativa being the plants name and variance indica meaning it comes from India.

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R7GZ8 TIL Blue eyes are not due to pigmentation, and actually appear blue due to their structure in the same way the sky does.
pYZZ8 TIL that only 48 people were rescued out of 212 cruise ship overboard incidents from 2009 to 2019.
d8kEZ TIL that half of President John Tyler’s cabinet along with several congressmen were killed instantly when a cannon malfunctioned and exploded during a Potomac River dinner cruise. President Tyler personally assisted with the rescue efforts and married a girl he carried away on his back
xV11b TIL American football is based on “rugby football” and soccer is based on “association football”. Both of them are called “football” because they were played on foot as opposed to horseback.
X0M1k TIL a man named Gary Ashbrook died after suffocation by a condom. He was looking for new sexual thrills, but ended up dead, suffocated by a condom. Gary was found dead naked, next to three empty cans of nitrous oxide which he used to inflate the condom and put it over his head.