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TIL that prisoners in Paris were offered freedom if they married prostitutes and moved to Louisiana

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6EYVl TIL That large bottles of wine have crazy, Biblical names, including Jeroboam, Nebuchadnezzar, Goliath or Melchizedek, which is 40 times the size of a regular wine bottle
Pv0J TIL sunflowers can “remove up to 95% of uranium of contaminated water in 24 hours”. And “experiments in Chernobyl have demonstrated that they can concentrate on 55 kg of plant dry weight all the cesium and strontium radioactivity from an area of 75 m2”.
ROEQ TIL Mozart once conducted an orchestra, at the demands of the crowd, after standing during the performance and shouting that the orchestra had played a wrong note.
xVAEg TIL, of Prader-Willi Syndrome. Those affected can never feel full and if let unattended would literally eat until their belly's burst. Sufferers are also afflicted with diminished mental capacity so they can't understand the dangers involved.
d8D57 TIL there is a literary subgenre of Christian fiction featuring Amish characters, but written and read mostly by evangelical Christian women. It is called "Amish Romance."