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TIL Tetris helps cope with trauma

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R7lpQ TIL that 99% of the wasabi consumed in the world is not actually wasabi, it’s horseradish + green food colouring. Real wasabia japonica is one of the most expensive crops to grow and is a temperamental semiaquatic herb native to the mountain streams of central Japan.
xpw0 TIL, the newly elected Pope Francis’ response to the cardinals who elected him was “may God forgive you for what you have done”.
JYvPl TIL English Ivy can cause a rash similar to that of Poison Ivy, and the allergen, falcarinol, comes not only from its leaves, but also the stems and root. It’s not mentioned as often as Poison Ivy and the other Poison variations due to the rashes often getting diagnosed as Poison Ivy interaction.
8g8K TIL Texas started a $10k degree initiave and now there are 12 schools offering degrees for $10k TOTAL and other states are following suit
e0QA6 TIL that Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jack Anderson was targeted by the Nixon administration for assassination in 1972. The plot was foiled when the assassination plotters, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were arrested for the Watergate break-in.