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TIL: All Potatoes originated near modern day Peru

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P1dbL TIL that since the medieval period Singapore has only had one monarch (Yusof Ishak) as an independent state; it became a republic the same year it split from Malaysia.
7raBb TIL that at the end credits of Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, the weird mumbling you hear before it goes off is actually a guy saying "No, no, this is the end of the show, you're watching it backwards!" being played reversed
v1kjr TIL that in 1980, a Somali government prisoner was sentenced to life in solitary confinement. He contemplated suicide until the prisoner in the next cell tapped out the words of a book in modified Morse code.
ep7n5 TIL Scientists studying visual perception superglued patches on cuttlefish to Velcro 3D glasses on them. The cuttlefish kept the glasses on long enough for the research team to determine that they have stereo vision (like humans).
joGR TIL that contrary to popular belief, Blackbeard never killed or tortured those he held captive. Many of the misbeliefs were created by british propaganda and modern movie industry. Source in the last paragraph of the intro