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TIL there’s a village in India that exclusively produces bouncers and bodyguards for New Delhi nightclubs

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Egn7p TIL: snow crunches louder when it’s below 14 f.
nARP TIL your body produces 3 highly illegal narcotics (DMT, GHB, and Morphine)
jNZnn TIL before the fruit, the colour orange had no name, it was basically known as a "yellow-red". The earliest known usage of the word Orange to refer to the fruit is around the 13th century. The earliest use of the word Orange to refer to the colour is the 16th Century.
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