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TIL Coriander is the name for the plant's seeds, cilantro is the name for the leaves & stalk

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yQEnV TIL Teeth are only able to experience one sensation, that being pain. When you eat or drink something too hot or too cold, or a dentist operates on your teeth, you will only experience pain because that is the only thing the nerves around your teeth respond to.
wJkY TIL there’s a bar in South Africa entirely inside a 6,000 year old baobab tree, a species which naturally begins to hollow after it reaches about 1,000 years old.
XPAr TIL that some species of Hummingbirds can travel 385 miles on a single gram of fat.
4XZN5 TIL Emmy winners don't actually get to keep the statuette and instead have to buy it for $400 if they choose.
xlM1 TIL that since 1989 the federal government has paid $2.4 billion in awards for 3100+ injuries/deaths proven to have been caused by adverse reactions to vaccinations. Not a single one of the 4,564 claims of vaccine-caused autism was found to have merit.