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TIL that loofahs are not sea sponges at all, instead they are gourds, and you can grow them in your own garden

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vP1NB TIL about the Carrington Event: in 1859 a massive solar flare spewed electrified gas and subatomic particles toward Earth, wreaking havoc on telegraph networks. Today it would stop our “modern life” for weeks.
LkX99 TIL of eight deaths related to ingesting liquid laundry packets (i.e. Tide Pods) in the U.S. between 2012 and early 2017 that have been reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, only two of the cases were actually children, with six of them being adults with dementia.
jNnZM TIL that the pigment Prussian Blue, used extensively in "Starry Night" and "The Great Wave off Kanagawa", was first synthesized by cooking blood with potash.
ADDpd TIL that on average at peak production, one horse can output 14.9 horsepower.
gr6p7 TIL John Carpenter's The Thing (1982 film) was based on the shortened version of a novel that wasn't published until 2019