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TIL Each silk strand in a corn on the cob connects to an individual kernel of corn.

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wLkyW TIL that the writer of the hymn "Amazing Grace" had an incredibly filthy mouth. During his time as a sailor he was: "admonished several times for not only using the worst words the captain had ever heard, but creating new ones to exceed the limits of verbal debauchery"
WmA8 TIL code adam, a safety protocol for missing children created by Walmart in 1994 was so successful, it was passed as law
b6YX0 TIL that during a 2002 rally race, driver Markko Märtin was holding a slight lead when the hood of his car flipped open, covering his windshield. Despite having only having 30m of visibility, he continued driving the next 20km with the bonnet blocking his view, and eventually won the race.
b9kMp TIL That the famous deaf-blind writer Hellen Keller received a gift from a Japanese police officer who gave her an Akita dog named Kamikaze-Go as a present. After the dog's death Japan’s government gifted another Akita, making her the first person to bring the dog breed to the U.S. In 1948
1akL7 TIL that a unit of Donkey Power is a thing equalling 250 watts which is about a third of a Horse Power