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TIL: The River Thames is one of the cleanest Rivers in the world that flows through a major city, after being declared biologically dead 50 years ago

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Qda6 TIL: White wine can be made from red grapes. Red wine is just made by leaving the skin on them.
6Ej5W TIL in the Jainism religion of India, they don't even eat root vegetables like potatoes and garlic, because by using the root you are killing the plant as it can not grow again.
LQAeV TIL Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, was born before Jesus Christ. He was born circa 6th–4th century B.C. ("Before Christ") in Lumbini province, Nepal.
gj59 TIL that November 9th is known as “Fateful Day” by German historians because so many important events happened on this date
jEwR TIL the opposite of sparkle is darkle.