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TIL that Princess Zelda was named after Scott Fitzgerald’s (The Great Gatsby author) wife.

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7rdLZ TIL: About the “Little Red Engine” zoetrope record that played a children’s song while showing a movie to kids at the same time. It was published in 1956.
9Mjp TIL that asparagus can grow up to 7" in a day, and a farmer can harvest spears more than once a day from the same plant.
XEL1k TIL Crocodiles Do Not Die of Old Age
OxOX TIL the UN advisor on Drugs and Crime believes money from drug cartels and organized crime saved major banks during the 2008 financial crisis
grx67 TIL during the siege of Leningrad, scientists working at the world’s largest collection of seeds protected the seeds from the threats of the cold, the hungry residents of the besieged city, rats, and their own hunger. Twenty-eight of the botanists died during the siege, protecting their collection.