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TIL ants don’t take fall damage
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TIL that anise, star anise, and licorice are completely botanically unrelated, despite smelling and tasting very similar.
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TIL Popeye eats spinach because of an error in the calculation of its iron content by chemist Erich von Wolf in 1870. He misplaced a decimal point, recording iron as having 35mg per 100g, instead of its true value of 3.5mg/100g. The former is equal to eating part of a paperclip.
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TIL that there are white rainb9ws that appear in fog.
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TIL: A Detroit musician living in poverty didn’t know that in South Africa, he was more popular than the Beatles.
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TIL… Dr. Pepper was not named after the creator but after the friend of the inventor. Also Dr. Pepper predates coke by one whole year!