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TIL that the white stringy stuff on citrus fruit is called Pith and is really healthy for u to eat, and contains as much Vitamin C as the actual fruit

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yB5a TIL that every Icelanders will receive a payout of 215 euro for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki. Iceland, being the only European nation to fully recover fully from the 2008 crisis, has recently jailed its 26th banker for causing the financial chaos.
p8B5A TIL on Dec 26th the aristocracy distributed presents (boxes) to servants and employees, who returned home, opened their boxes and had a second Christmas on what became known as "Boxing Day."
klO7 TIL that there is a dwarf planet in our solar system that is 8 billion miles away and takes 10,000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun.
vPO8K TIL there is an almost shot for shot Turkish adaption of the TV series House MD, called Hekimoglu.
YpgBG TIL the motto of Spain was originally Non Plus Ultra ("Nothing further beyond") but after the discovery of the New World it was reversed to be Plus Ultra ("Further beyond").