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TIL that Ruby Red grapefruit - among other modern foods - were the results of irradiating the seeds in "gamma gardens" of the 1950s, an effort to show peaceful uses for fission energy.

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GA155 TIL that a group of 25 people could maintain their energy balance for 60 days - eating one mammoth, 16 days - eating a deer, but only half a day eating another human.
xVXDB TIL After dead lifting a world record 500kg (1102lbs), strongman Eddie Hall suffered a bruised back, lack of vision, and bleeding from the ears, eyes, and nose
Lpo9 TIL some Canadian police departments issue ‘positive tickets’ thanking citizens for doing something good.
b6WXE TIL A Chicago man who bought $1,000 in stock about 70 years ago has given the resulting $2 million to a wildlife charity
DmWg TIL in 1941 the world’s largest seed bank (created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city forcing mass starvation, Vavilov’s scientists refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.