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TIL that Loofahs are vegetables in the squash family and can be eaten as well as dried and used as sponges

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YYNr TIL in 2013 The Wall Street Journal discovered a cache of files that revealed the U.S. government lobotomized over 2000 veterans against their will after WW2. The veterans were lobotomized for reasons such as PTSD, depression, schizophrenia, and occasionally homosexuality.
x6aKk TIL North America was once divided by the great Western Interior Seaway that ranged from the present Artic to Gulf of Mexico beginning around the Mesozoic period (approx. 200 millions years ago +/-) Its why Alberta, a land locked province, has such great fossil deposits.
XEQPE TIL about A Free Ride, the earliest extant American pornographic movie, from 1915
VBOwB TIL the reason cats like to eat spider plants is because they are mildly hallucinogenic to cats and cats like to get high
PY9ln TIL that during his lifetime Pythagoras was subject to elaborate legends like having a golden thigh, could fly thanks to a magic arrow, was greeted by name by a river, and once when bitten by a deadly snake, bit it back and killed it