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TIL peanuts grow through a process called “pegging,” in which the “peg” of the plant penetrates the soil

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m46R TIL that Walmart hasn’t paid A $7,000 fine for the 2008 Black Friday trampling death
R7gVa TIL box jellyfish have 24 eyes. 8 of them are image-forming and structurally similar to human eyes, while the other 16 are thought to sense only the intensity of incoming light from all directions.
8PkK TIL that every September, Usenet would get an influx of college freshman who would have to learn Usenet netiquette; in September of 1993, AOL began to offer Usenet access to its’ many users, overwhelming Usenet’s social norms and causing an “Eternal September,” which has lasted 7,279 days
p8p0A TIL the phrase "Long time no see" was originally a "broken English" phrase - the phrase has its origin from either a Native American or Chinese phrase
Y7BBZ TIL that an 84-year-old man named Park Byeong-gu has eaten nothing but instant ramen for over 41 years