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TIL Almost all animals and plants synthesize their own vitamin C, but humans cannot because the gene for this enzyme is defective

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wnaP TIL the small country of the Netherlands is the 2nd largest exporter of agricultural goods behind the USA, with exports earning $79 billion in 2013. They export two thirds of the world’s fresh-cut plants, flowers, and flower bulbs.
d8wyZ TIL That Charles Barkley once had ice thrown on him at a club by another patron. Barkley responded by throwing the patron out a window. When the judge asked Barkley if he had any regrets, Barkley replied, “Yeah I regret we were on the first floor.”
x69rb TIL that Rochester in the UK was a city for almost 800 years until it lost that status due to an administrative error which was discovered four years after its reversion to a town
l7LK7 TIL the fingernail-sized fish 'Danionella cerebrum' can make noises louder than an elephant.
GYZog TIL about the Squonk, a mythological creature from Pennsylvania that is so ugly that it cries constantly from loneliness and shame, dissolving in a puddle of its own tears when cornered.