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TIL that potatoes were actually originally cultivated in peru

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lQ7r TIL In 1903, a barge tipped somewhere off the coast of Staten Island, sending most of its 7,700 silver-and-lead bars to the bottom. Most bars were recovered right away, but some 1,400 bars, valued at up to $20 million today were never found.
lyZA TIL theres a high school in Louisiana whose mascot has been Snoopy the dog since 1966, and remains the only school in the nation to have received this right from Chuck Schultz
p86ge TIL about work grunting, aka worm charming. A sport, past time, and subsistence strategy practiced in many cultures around the world.
QJR1d Today I learned that the country with the highest average male height is Montenegro at 6 foot 0 inches
KOnl6 TIL of the Bat Bomb, an experimental American WW2 weapon - a large canister filled with 1,040 bats, each carrying their own weight in napalm. Despite promising results, development progressed too slowly and the Bat Bob was abandoned in favour of the atomic bomb.