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TIL 99.9% of Americans have never tasted blackcurrant due to sanctions put in place to protect white pine trees.

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LQro9 TIL of a device MIT created that can read ancient, fragile books and literature without touching them by shooting the pages with beams of radiation.
wLyP8 TIL that in 2010, Sweden removed the statute of limitations for prosecuting murder because the 1986 assassination of their prime minister, Olof Palme, had still not been solved. Though 10,000 people have been questioned, the killer remains unknown to this day.
gnD8 TIL: NASA has found that under certain conditions the moon rings like a bell.
N7NL8 TIL that 3 residents of the Greek island Lesbos in 2008, tried to ban the use of the word ‘Lesbian’. They felt it insulted their identity, as they believed the term described their own origins. They lost and had to pay court fees of €230.
vrpL TIL That Pornhub is crowdfunding $3.4 million to film an adult movie in space.