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TIL Zach Galifianakis pays for an elderly friend’s rent and bills as well as takes her to movie premieres

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6oll TIL “the world has more than 50,000 edible plants, yet just three commodity crops—rice, maize, and wheat—provide 60 percent of the plant-derived calories we eat”
Z8VD4 TIL in 2011, Conan O'Brien was ordained as a minister by the Universal Life Church Monastery, allowing him to perform a same-sex marriage in New York. The wedding, between a member of Conan's staff and his partner, was held on the stage of the Beacon Theatre and broadcast on Conan.
oBBkK TIL The human eye's optical axis doesn't line up with its visual axis, the clearest picture is not projected where the most sensors are (fovea)
xABg TIL Jehovah’s Witnesses teach their followers that a woman has to scream for help if she is being attacked by a rapist or she is considered guilty of “fornication”. This applies even if the rapist threatens to kill her if she screams.
yVn48 TIL The U.S. offered land to exiled French Bonapartists in Alabama to grow grapes and olives, but the colony failed due to the settlers' lack of farming skills and unsuitable soil.