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TIL that Arkansas Grows Rice. This is interesting becuase I always thought of rice an Asian Thing

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6EZ8m TIL soybeans and edamame come from the same plant, just at different stages of maturation
yVyYJ TIL that a 2016 facial recognition test gave a 95% likelihood, the highest possible score, that a man in a post-WW2 photo was Herschel Grynszpan, a Jew whose assassination of a diplomat was used as an excuse by the Nazis to instigate Kristallnacht & who was long-presumed to have died during the war.
loMj5 TIL there’s an official day of kindness in Pennsylvania that honors Mr. Rogers’ favorite number, 143, which stands for the letters in “I love you.“
P1gWV TIL contrary to popular belief, Chanel No. 5 wasn’t Marilyn Monroe’s favourite perfume. Monroe also had a secret adoration for "Floris Rose Geranium" perfume, which was delivered in bulk to her at the Beverly Hills Hotel under a cloak and dagger alias during the filming of "Some Like It Hot".
rR1L4 TIL Sweden had a racial purity programme until 1976. More than 60,000 people were sterilized. People could apply to have "problem families" in neighborhood sterilized.