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TIL that Dr Seuss invented the word “Nerd”

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d88Gr TIL that the shop made crepes in Leclercs supermarkets are only cooked on one side!
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b9ddN TIL for over 300 years Europeans could not grow vanilla seeds since bringing it from South America. In 1836 it was finally discovered that a bee from Mexico was the only capable pollinator of the vanilla orchid.