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TIL There are pencils which once they're too small to use can be planted and will grow into herbs, vegetables or flowers like basil or sunflowers.

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JYNWj TIL that Michigan has a formal and informal way to spell “marijuana”
G50N TIL there’s a experimental project in Stockholm, Sweden where you can sign up to recieve a SMS if there is a cardiac arrest nearby (500 m), so you can get there before the ambulance and perform CPR. 9500 people have signed up, and they reach the location faster in 54% of the cases yo.
nbZ7 TIL that in a blind test taste Pepsi activated more dopamine receptors than Coca-Cola. However once participants were told they were drinking Coke, it then became the greater dopamine producing beverage over Pepsi – even when lied to. Most likely it was Coke’s marketing that was responsible.
5VmRn TIL: A mule always has a donkey father and a horse mother. An offspring of a horse father and a donkey mother is called a hinny.
n5db TIL McDonald’s Cooked their Fries in 93% Beef Fat (Tallow) until 1990, when they Switched to Vegetable Oil