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TIL that Russian scientists managed to grow 32,000-year-old plants from seeds they found encased in ice in Siberia

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4krxo TIL from 1066 to 1971 in England a pound was worth 20 shillings, each worth 12 pennies, each worth 2 halfpennies, each worth 2 farthings, plus thruppence, sixpence, florin, half crown, and crown
awANM TIL Croissants originated in Austria, not in France. At least as early as the 13th century.
9Gxp TIL that Prison inmates are teaching testy dogs civility. There may be no better place for bite-prone animals to receive the constant care they need to break out of their own prisons. The men who train the animals learn responsibility, and acquire a skill they can use outside the prison walls.
W76p4 TIL that after being denied having his dog in his dorm at Cambridge, famous poet Lord Byron got a pet bear since there was no rule against them.
DQo5Y TIL that the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has 40,000 legally dead people who are still alive.