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TIL every tomato we eat is a mutant of an ancestor with fruits the size of a pea.

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78LVr TIL Joan of Leeds, a 14th century nun, faked her own death by crafting a dummy “in the likeness of her body” in order to escape her convent & allegedly pursue “the way of carnal lust.” She was discovered around 30 miles (48 km) away living "indecently" with a man & was denounced as an apostate.
W71ZY TIL as recently as the 1960s, information about bagels was not necessarily common knowledge. In 1960, The New York Times famously identified bagels for still-clueless readers as “an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.”
0d1y1 TIL that actress Alicia Witt's parents were found frozen to death in their Massachusetts home in December 2021.They refused help on home repairs repeatedly.
yN5X TIL: A confidential study by the music industry downplays filesharing and suggests 70% of all unpaid music comes from offline swapping.
R6g4 TIL of the Vela Incident, A nuclear explosion in the Indian ocean of unknown origin. The most widespread theory is that it was a joint South African-Israeli nuclear test.