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TIL that asparagus touches 20 hands between field and market; is hugely labor-intensive to produce; and grows 7" per day

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l7E6B TIL: Mauritanian girls are force fed up to 16,000 calories a day to make them more attractive to men
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LQxp9 TIL PCP (phencyclidine) was discovered by Parke-Davis and Company's laboratories in Detroit
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