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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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69dVm TIL that graying is a sign of active hair growth. Gray hair is also both thicker and faster growing than pigmented hair.
b954Q TIL that "daddy long legs" are not spiders. They are called Harvestmen, or Opiliones, and they are more closely related to mites.
VMNOQ TIL due to the speed of its orbit and rotation, Mercury's days are longer than its years.
e0ap4 TIL about the Kogi tribe, an indigenous people who choose their priests at birth and raise them in a dark cave for a decade to connect them to the earth.
9wZY6 TIL that Barry Sanders' own father asserted that Jim Brown was the greatest runningback ever, and at Barry's HOF induction called him the third best RB ever and barely praised his own son.