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TIL potatoes have 48 chromosomes, instead of 46.

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KJoJ TIL the first goalie mask worn in a NHL game wasn’t until a goalie took a puck to the face, got stitched up, and refused to return to the game unless he could wear a mask.
4j06 TIL that the “essential” in Essential Oils means “essence of” and not “indispensable to humans” like it does in essential fatty acids or essential amino acids.
B9jx TIL Looney Tunes was created to promote WB’s music catalog in the 1930’s. That’s why it’s “Tunes” and not “Toons”
edrg TIL in 1976, residents of a small town in Ohio began receiving threatening anonymous letters. Thousands of letters were sent and some contained personal details. The main suspect was jailed but released after three years when he himself was sent a letter in prison. The case remains unsolved.
Yp6vA TIL Indian novelist Anita Desai was born to a German mother and a Bengali businessman during a period when it was still unusual for an Indian man to marry a European woman. She grew up speaking Hindi with her neighbours, and only German at her home