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TIL roses are edible (and actually quite nutritious)

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9Wmm TIL that kids need recess. It helps them release anxiety, helps them learn socially and helps them learn better while in school. Taking away recess does more harm than good.
rN7lx TIL that white people have a higher likelihood of developing skin cancer compared to black people.
e0JRL TIL that vanilla beans (like coffee beans) all taste differently based on their country or origin. Some taste like figs, others like cherries, some like licorice and all have a primary flavor of vanilla.
VyQ0 TIL cracking your knuckle joints doesn’t give you arthritis. Dr Donald Unger cracked the knuckles on his left hand, twice a day for 50 years but not on his right hand. He proved his mother wrong and received the Ig Nobel Prize for his research
mx5LE TIL Canadian Indigenous incarceration rates are 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous population. Higher than South Africa at the height of apartheid. In Saskatchewan, if you’re Indigenous, you’re 33 times more likely to be incarcerated than than the non-Indigenous.