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TIL oranges are not the best option for Vitamine C need. Other fruits like kiwi, strawberry and others are way better. Also broccoli are a great source of it

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oGJ8 TIL Mount Mitchell, highest in the eastern US, is named after Elisha Mitchell, geologist and climber. He fell to his death at the nearby waterfall, now named “Mitchell Falls.”
E1850 TIL Of Alfred Kroeber who studied a man he named Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe who walked into the modern world in 1911. In Ishi's culture, knowing ones name gives you power over them, so Ishi just means Man. This idea of magic in naming things influenced Kroeber's daughter Ursula Le Guin.
nWN7o TIL there are roughly the same amount of neurons and glia in your gut as in a cat's brain
jN4gX TIL At the end of WW2, ownership of the German Battlecruiser 'Prinz Eugen' was decided by putting Russian, British and American names in a hat and drawing a raffle.
kOyPE TIL about the melon drop scam, a con that targeted Japanese tourists. Scammers would buy a watermelon for a low price and then bump into an Asian tourist and charge them about $100 for the broken melon. This is due to the higher fruit prices in Japan. These days the scam involves any broken item.