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TIL the stem end of a cucumber (and other related fruits and vegetables) tastes different from the other end due to a higher concentration of a bitter compound called cucurbitacin.

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xDvk TIL in 1961, the captain of a ship named “Bluebelle” killed all its passengers except a young girl who he left for dead in the ship he scuttled, the girl was able to escape and drifted for four days on sea before rescued, the captain later committed suicide upon learning of her survival.
d04Q TIL, a year ago, Neptune completed it’s first orbit since it was discovered. That’s over 165 years!
loyNN TIL your body will dissolve loose pieces of bone in your body after a fracture
wLdjY TIL that the profane Hungarian response to being given an unreasonably heavy workload is "bekergettek tatott szajjal a faszerdobe," or “They chased me into the dick-forest with a wide open mouth”
01xM TIL Brazil went against pharmaceutical giants to become a model on HIV prevention and the United States was the only abstention in a UN meeting that declared HIV drugs to be a human right.