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TIL: White, green, oolong, and black teas come from the leaves of the same tea plant species.

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Ky54 TIL the “skin” on the Statute of Liberty is only 2.4mm thick. About the thickness of two pennies.
6EAZ TIL the first woman to be crowned “Miss America” said of the title, “I never cared to be Miss America. It wasn’t my idea. I am so bored by it all. I really want to forget the whole thing.”
MeJ8W TIL of Bulgaria’s role during World War II as a part of the Axis. Did not participate in the war vs the Soviet Union, reluctant to send Jews to the Holocaust, had no resistance to the incoming Red Army to “liberate” them in Sept. 1944, and ended the war with slightly more land!
OovWY TIL: The world's smallest 'snowman' is only 2.7μm (micrometres) tall (in comparison a human hair is 75μm). To create it a scientist, Todd Simpson from Western University, stacked 3 tiny silica spheres, added a nose and arms made of platinum and cut the eyes and mouth with a focused ion beam.
VMoJm Today I learned "Sudoku" was actually originally invented by an American architect named "Howard Garns" in 1979, baring the name "Number Place"