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TIL in the mid-1800s, a snail spent nearly four years glued to a specimen card in the British Museum before scientists realized it was still alive.

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6L98 TIL: In the world of botany there’s no such thing as vegetables. It’s a culinary term so there are no plants that are actually classified as vegetables.
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ObZL TIL that according to the Inflation theory, our unobservable universe may be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times larger than the already mind-bogglingly massive observable universe.
WkdeB TIL that if a space station is large enough you can orbit it
Wkj8N TIL that The Netherlands has such a low crime rate, it imports criminals from other countries such as Norway to fill their jails due to a lack of prisoners.