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TIL Saffron, the worlds most expensive spice, has also been touted as an anti-carcinogen and a treatment of clinical depression

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NXGB6 TIL glass is permeable for hydrogen ions, like a sieve
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OGyRg TIL Women die 17% more than men in car crashes. And counting frontal car crashes the injury rate is also 73% higher.
NZKN TIL the Titanic’s older sister ship, the Olympic kind of was unsinkable, it crashed into a plethora of things without sinking and was used in WWI to ram and sink German U-boats.
a86Q0 TIL certain species of wild oats are able to walk. They have a pair of 'legs' called awns which flex and make the seeds crawl around, to find an ideal place to plant itself.