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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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0gj1 TIL held in farts enter your bloodstream
8a4EZ TIL that a dog’s age is not 7 times human age, but: 16(ln(dog’s age))+31. It’s a natural logarithmic curve, so a 1-year old dog is about 31 in human years, and a 10-year old is about 68. (Link has calculator!)
PYNnn TIL one of the twin boys on "Everybody Loves Raymond" committed suicide when he was 19.
b9P7E TIL that Svetlana Savitskaya—the second woman in space—arrived at Mir (first modular space station) in 1982, she was greeted with an apron as a welcome present, and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen by her fellow cosmonauts.
0a8A TIL over 133,000 people signed a petition stating they would prefer a different artist to headline instead of Kanye West at the Glastonbury Music Festival 2015