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TIL Dogs kill 25x more people each year than crocodiles do

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7VMP TIL that there is a garden in England devoted entirely to plants that can kill. The creator, the Duchess of Northumberland, felt that people ‘would be more interested in hearing how a plant killed, how long it would take you to die if you ate it and how gruesome and painful the death might be’.
165Kr TIL that Ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 instead of base 10. That's why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle.
9KyM TIL Thomas Jefferson wrote his State of the Union messages, instead of delivering them in a speech like George Washington. All presidents followed Jefferson’s lead until Woodrow Wilson resurrected Washington’s precedent in 1913.
KOmeE TIL Darwin believed that white people were more evolved than black people. He also believed that males were superior to females.
l7v5a TIL: 'Boneless Wings' are not chicken wing meat, they are generally just coated pieces of chicken breast, similar to a Chicken Nugget or Tender