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TIL there is a ~11,000 sq ft underground vault on a Norwegian Island that “aims at safeguarding the world’s most important plant genetic resources for food and agriculture with a maximum level of security” free of charge.

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AD7va TIL there is a restaurant in New York that doesn't employ professional chefs. Instead, every day a grandmother from a different country designs a menu that showcases her native cuisine.
KYOXR TIL in 1272 the theft of a cow in the town of Ciney led to a 6 years war and thousand of death
awWNb TIL Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom Video Communications, got rejected visa 8 times. before he got approved to move to the US in the mid-1990s.
neJQG TIL that the pattern on dogs’ noses are unique to each dog. Like human fingerprints, no two are alike. Dog Nose Printing has already been adopted in some places in the United States to track lost dogs, as nose prints are a far more reliable method than dog tags for identification.
R7wZ8 TIL in 1567, the man with the world’s longest-ever beard broke his neck and died after tripping over it.