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TIL the world has more than 50,000 edible plants, yet just three commodity crops—rice, maize, and wheat—provide 60 percent of the plant-derived calories we eat

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16OaX TIL that leeches have 32 brains, 18 testicles, 10 stomachs, 5 pairs of eyes, 2 hearts and 300 teeth in it's three jawed mouth.
KOd0G TIL that there is an Island off of Scotland where wallabies have happily inhabited and adapted to the climate there since the 1940s
4Xy8N TIL that thanks to his Internet popularity, the child from the "Success Kid" meme made enough money to fund his dad's kidney transplant.
E1KZx TIL that Howard Ashman, the lyricist for Disney's The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, was a gay man who passed away due to AIDS-related complications before the latter came out. His perspective on being a gay man directly affected both of the aforementioned movies via characters and tropes
7r87p TIL that during the Iran-Contra hearings, Senator Daniel Inouye remarked that "[There exists] a shadowy Government with...the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself."