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TIL: Green olives and black olives are not different species. The distinction reflects whether they were picked before or after ripening.

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jNGKM TIL moon is moving 4 cm away from earth every year. In 50 billion years, both will be tidelocked in an orbit in which both will show only one face to each other.
Edrp TIL the earliest documented version of Cinderella is Chinese.
Ypwgd TIL the Darien Scheme in 1698 was Scotland’s sole attempt at colonization. The effort failed but cost £400k (£71m inflation-adjusted) – about 20% of the nation’s capital. It crippled Scotland’s economy and was a major factor in its Act of Union with England in 1707, thus forming the United Kingdom.
LQDV TIL a woman named Chante Mallard hit homeless man Gregory Biggs lodging him in her windshield, alive. She did nothing to help him, just drove home and parked in her garage where she let him suffer for hours before dying. Only caught months later because she talked about it at a party.
vje7 TIL that sex toys have been illegal in Alabama since 1998. However, you can legally buy them if you have a doctor’s note.