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TODAY I LEARNED Apples you buy from Supermarket can be a year old.

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e0gW5 TIL that Tippi Hedren, the star in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) is now 90 years old and still lives with lions and tigers after she began rescuing them in the early 1970s, according to her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson
wPEM TIL there is a unit called the “Manhatten distance” (or city block distance), describing the distance of two points when you, rather than measuring the direct linear connection, sum up the length of the left/right and the up/down movement, as if you walk along blocks in a big city.
Rkj6 TIL: You would need to smoke approximately 15,000 joints in 20 minutes to die from cannabis poisoning.
g5ZX TIL that Adrien Beard was chosen to voice the character “Token”, because he was the only African-American employed at South Park Studios at the time of token’s first appearance.
yKyX TIL Doritos could be made without the powder and taste exactly the same. It was left on because it was decided that the residue left on your fingers was part of the “Doritos experience”