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TIL Sierra Mixe corn is a traditional crop grown in Mexico that has a symbiotic relationship to nitrogen-fixing bacteria. It has additional aerial roots that secrete mucous to support the bacteria that fertilize it.

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5YGGn TIL Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard along with NASA Scientist Jack Parsons went to the desert with the purpose of creating a Human Body for an entity called Babalon. This is known in history books as The Babalon Working.
rlm4 TIL, Koreans reckon the pregnancy period as one year of life for infants, and age increments increase on New Year’s Day rather than on the anniversary of birthdays. Thus, one born immediately before New Year’s Day may only be a few days old in western reckoning, but two years old in Korea.
jN0ZN TIL that inflation was so low in the United States in the 2010s that economists were actually becoming concerned that it might signal economic stagnation and a lack of economic control. Inflation was lower between 2010 and 2019 than any decade since the 1930s.
Vvx4 TIL During WWII they developed an ultra long range fighter to escort bomber raids in the Pacific…by joining two heavily modified P-51 Mustangs with one single wing. It still holds the record for longest flight of a piston powered fighter, after flying more than 5000 miles from Hawaii to New York
JVn1 TIL Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett was also the co-creator of the surreal, post-apocalyptic comic Tank Girl