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TIL that potatoes were actually originally cultivated in peru

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xKGg TIL that body hair doesn’t stop growing at a certain length; it just lives a shorter life and falls out before the hair on your head.
8Bpa TIL that 7 out of 10 Chinese students studying abroad never return home, resulting in China having the worst brain drain in the world.
6jvQ TIL that The U.S.gave up its high-energy physics project in Texas after Congress had yanked funding — after building 15 miles of underground tunnels at a $2 billion cost to the U.S. taxpayers.
N7M4e TIL Apollo 12 landed within 600 feet of the Surveyor 3 spacecraft that had arrived 2 years earlier. Parts of the spacecraft were retrieved and taken back home for examination.
e0rXk TIL that Jews were often blamed and persecuted for being the cause of the Black Plague.