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TIL Vanilla is produced from a species of orchid, it's the only fruit bearing orchid in the world.

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wJEW TIL: the term Pot Hole come from 18th century England when potters would dig holes in the middle of the road for clay.
NGQJ TIL that the NYPD actively profiles citizens in order to meet “performance standards” aka quotas or else officers get penalized for not having enough “stop and frisk” arrests and summons
j6mX TIL Ethiopia has banned Skype, Google Talk, and all other VoIP services
OGJKY TIL about the medical "interventions," more accurately experiments on "prisoners" in British India for malaria, cholera, typhoid, & plague. In one incident, Muslim prisoners fasting for Ramadan were forcibly given weekly doses of quinine for malaria treatments.
6Ywm TIL the iconic whistling in Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” was originally a mistake. The song lyrics accidentally fell to the floor during the recording session and because studio time was running out, Redding improvised a whistled tune on the spot.