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TIL that there are 10 million descendants of passengers on the Mayflower.

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78L5p TIL that In the witches scene in MacBeth where they describe a potion needing "eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog" they're really referring to common plants. Respectively: mustard seed, buttercup, holly leaves, and hounds tongue.
kOBPd TIL in 2004, corporate attorney Nathan Sawaya quit his lucrative job to build Lego professionally so he could "get away from the daily grind". His sculptures now command six figure prices each.
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