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TIL that the Jerusalem artichoke is neither an artichoke, nor it comes from Jerusalem. It is a species of sunflower native to North America

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DQ50p TIL about the War of the Bucket. It was fought in 1325 between the rival city-states of Bologna and Modena, in Italy. A common myth surrounding the war is that it was caused by the Modenese stealing a bucket from a Bolognese well. Modena won the Battle of Zappolino, the only battle of the war
kJZ6e TIL in 1948 Idaho Fish and Game attached parachutes to 76 beavers and dropped them out of a plane into the backcountry. All but one beaver survived the drop and they created a beaver colony in the Chamberlain Basin.
WkJnB TIL because electronic computers were not fast in 1959, the X15 experimental jet used a Fluidic Digital Computer that used water instead of electricity. It featured hypersensitive Fluidic Integrated Circuits and Logic Gates that could make course corrections faster than its contemporary computers.
PYmDL TIL that Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3 was given shorter hair for the convenience of video games: it would have taken more processing power of the PlayStation 2 to animate longer realistic hair and the game designers used the processing power towards increasing monster numbers instead.
wLY0P TIL Christopher Nolan says the scene he's most proud of out of his entire filmography is the opening plane scene in 'The Dark Knight Rises'