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TIL there is a flower often used as a food dye in Southeast Asian cuisine called “Clitoria”–named because it resembles a woman’s sexual organs

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M7k98 TIL the first games in the Pokémon series, Red and Blue, contained 150 Pokémon as a reference to Dunbar's number, the number of relationships a single human being can have and properly maintain.
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5YBAn TIL of isolated incidents of humans surviving abnormally high G-forces, most notably the Air Force officer John Stapp, who demonstrated a human can withstand 46.2 G’s. The experiment only went on a few seconds, but for an instant, his body had weighed over 7,700 pounds.
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