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TIL The Sword in the Stone and Excalibur are two different swords

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ne4p7 TIL that Afghanistan has fertile soil perfect for growing pomegranate, but poor access to lucrative markets makes illegal poppy growing the more lucrative option.
1gPO TIL Fraser Island, Australia, is the largest Island to be entirely made out of sand.
jwxp TIL Several UFO sightings were recorded throughout the Roman Republic/Empire from 214 BC
AZY4 TIL Thomas Jefferson conducted the first legitimate archaeological dig in history and proved that the massive burial mounds were created by Native Americas, not the “lost race” of white people previously thought.
9XQX TIL:DNA barcoding was used to discover that of 1215 seafood samples from 674 restaurants and grocery stores in 21 U.S. states, a full third were mislabeled; The menu says red snapper, but it’s actually tilapia. The white tuna, meanwhile, is really escolar, while the seabass is Antarctic toothfish.