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ANLO7 TIL: Medieval European cuisine used to be more complex and flavorful. However, once spice became cheap and readily available to the poor, the elites started taking spices out of European cooking as they didn't want to be associated with the poor. This trend had lasting effects on European cuisine.
BrYMK TIL about a environmentalist who took a vow of silence for 17 years. He first started by taking a vow to never use motor vehicles after the 1971 San Francisco oil spill. He even went through school and even got a PHD while being silent. He only broke it when he played his banjo and thanked the crowd
woKZ6 TIL that a startup genetically engineered a houseplant with the air purification power of 30 ordinary plants
Gv75 TIL the Japanese maglev bullet train, Shinkansen, sports a sterling record of zero fatalities over its 50 years of operations
rN5JM TIL of William (Guillermo) Brown, an Irish-born Navy Admiral who founded the Argentinean Navy and helped in both Argentinean and Uruguayan independance wars.