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TIL Baby Corn is Just Regular Corn That is Harvested Before it Has A Chance to Mature

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7g77 TIL after a Groom forgot his wedding pants in the dressing room of a Minnesota clothier and flew to Costa Rica for his wedding, the Clothier sent his daughter on an 11-hour flight to deliver the pants personally because UPS and FedEx said they could not help.
l77OK TIL that before he was banned from Vegas casinos, mobster Tony "the Ant" Spilotro operated a gift shop at the Circus Circus.
DAEg TIL Americans and Europeans use their utensils differently because forks weren’t largely available to the British colonies until the 1750’s, so Americans had to use rounded table knives and spoons to eat, without stabbing their food.
1aj4W TIL chimps have a closely related counterpart called bonobos. While chimps are violent and cannibalistic, bonobos are very passive and often appease each other with sex.
Rwx9 TIL that a study of film-goers heart rates shows that the “Here’s Johnny!” scene from The Shining is the scariest moment in film. Over entire movies, “The Exorcist” is the scariest, sending pulses up by 25.9% on average.