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TIL Of Menocchio, a 16th century miller who was tried for heresy. He though religion was a fraud, didn't believe Jesus was a god and had his own cosmology, according to which "the world came from chaos, just like cheese comes from milk" and humans were like worms is the cosmic cheese

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M7oxA TIL that most of the "baby carrots" we see are large carrots that are placed into a machine, and cut into smaller, uniformly sized pieces. These carrot pieces were then processed, making them more appealing to consumers. It was an innovation made by California carrot farmer Mike Yurosek in 1986.
j6Yn TIL The country of Bhutan measures “Gross National Hapiness” as opposed to “Gross National Product,” and is commited to building an economy that would serve it’s unique culture.
yvxJ TIL that horseshoe-crab blood, at $60,000/gallon, is valued to such an extreme degree because it is not only employed worldwide in bacterial contamination tests, it is also used in testings for every single drug approved by the FDA, making it a $50 million/year industry.
R5oe9 TIL The Confederation Bridge, the longest ice-covered water crossing bridge in the world spans a 12.9 km
80WV TIL that there is a musical piece called ‘As SLow aS Possible’, written to be played literally as slow as possible (while strictly adhering to the score’s temporal proportions). An ongoing performance of the score began in a German church in September 5th 2001 and will end on September 5th, 2640.