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TIL scientists found a tomato plant on a 40 year old volcanic island. They were dumbfounded as to how it got there. It turned out that it grew from the poop that a scientist had taken on the island.

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xALb TIL of the “heath pea”, an abundant Scottish plant that, when eaten, effectively stops the sensations of both hunger and thirst for days
n77r TIL in 1966–the same year as “Paint It Black,” “Yellow Submarine,” “Substitute,” “Wild Thing,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “The Sounds of Silence,” and “Hold On, I’m Comin’ ”–Billboard’s #1 song of the year was “The Ballad of the Green Berets.”
v1EoB TIL Saffron is the most expensive food on earth, costing ~5,000 USD per pound. It is so expensive due to the fact that it has to be harvested manually, and takes between 50,000-75,000 flowers to produce just one pound of the spice.
88MV TIL there is a man who has defused over 10,000 land-mines without pay.
ne5BB TIL that on August 22, 1941, the Communist Law was introduced in Denmark. This law banned the Communist Party of Denmark and other communist parties and organisations