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TIL that it can take up to 80 years for this fish to reproduce for the first time

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woV47 TIL that the fluffy silk in milkweed was used to insulate naval life preservers and even aviation suits during World War II. The Department of Agriculture rallied support for the troops with the slogan, “pick a weed, save a life.”
6RW8 TIL John Pemberton died a pennyless morphine addict after selling the rights to his alcohol-free morphine alternative, ‘Coca-Cola’, a formula he said “some day will be a national drink”.
0wMav TIL that Fox and Friends once accused Spongebob of indoctrinating children
WyLo TIL Paul Newman was expelled from Ohio University after rolling a beer keg down Jeff Hill and crashing it into the president’s car.
KORrG TIL there was a period in French history where the country actually was represented by a plain white flag.