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TIL that jasmine rice isn't actually scented and flavored with jasmine. It's just a distinct variety of rice that naturally has a fragrant, floral aroma.

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4R9o TIL the warship which fired the first shots of WWI was captured once, scuttled twice, raised and refurbished, served under 4 different nations throughout both world wars and is now currently operating as a gravel barge in Serbia.
1OQW TIL in 1890’s, George Stratton, an American psychologist, wore inverted lenses to prove the brain adapts, and by the fifth day his brain started turning all the images upside down, so he would see the world normally.
R7Kd7 TIL building contractors and architectural engineers in Alaska have an adage when it comes to building in the Arctic or near-Arctic regions: "If it’s frozen, keep it frozen; if it’s thawed, keep it thawed".
oBQxK TIL the Fibonacci Sequence was identified by ancient Indian author Pingala around 200 BC. Writing about meters in Sanskrit poetry, he also described binary numbers (in the form of short & long syllables, similar to Morse code), Pascal's Triangle, and the first known explicit reference to zero.
e0XAJ TIL that in the Czech Republic denial of communist-perpetrated atrocities is illegal.