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TIL there is an 81 year old model still active

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KY0K9 TIL Deliberate consumption of microplastics by Japanese quail chicks does not increase mortality, morbidity or reproductive success - but does cause minor delays in growth, a higher incidence of epididymal intra-epithelial cysts and delays in female sexual maturity.
9jEG TIL the words “apron” and “napkin” were originally “napron” and “apkin” but the preceding indefinite articles (“an” and “a”) were so confusing to the ear that the words eventually just changed.
J1mBQ TIL It takes 17 years to grow a shitake mushroom in the traditional Japanese system. Sawtooth oak logs, the preferred growing medium for shitake, take 15 years to grow. It then takes another two years to inject the mushroom spores into the logs and grow the mature fruit.
bR1E TIL that one man is responsible for saving ‘a billion lives’ by developing different strains of wheat crop, thereby averting predicted famines.
M747m TIL the U.S. Navy had a warship called the USS Gyatt. Commissioned in 1945, the ship was named after Edward Earl Gyatt, a Marine Corps private who died in battle in 1942.