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TIL Cottons are related to Okras.

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D1D0r TIL that marshmallows were originally made using root juices from a plant (Althaea Officinalis, AKA "marsh mallow")
Y71wx TIL about a 10 cent beer night for an MLB team that caused fans to be so drunk that they threw firecrackers, openly smoked marijuana, streaked, and eventually rioted the field. The game was forfeited.
xpgD TIL The video Ipod single-handedly saved “The Office”. The show was about to get canceled but NBC struck a deal with Apple in which all new Ipods came pre-loaded with the Christmas Special episode. Resulting in The Office shooting to the top of the Itunes charts and ultimately running for 9 seasons.
wAr1 TIL that the IKEA HQ in Delft, Netherlands had to stop offering their €1,- breakfast during the weekends because the highways couldn’t handle the traffic it attracted.
lo00a Til accounts of post combat PTSD date back to Mesopotamia during the Assyrian dynasty (1300-609 BC). The Mesopotamians explain the disorder in terms of spirit affliction; the spirit of those enemies whom the patient had killed during battle causing the symptoms