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TIL an ounce of watermelon seeds has the same protein as one large egg. (Also the equivalent of three ounces of tofu, of half a cup of cooked lentils or edamame.)

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Y7kdP TIL in 1678 a pamphlet titled "Mowing-Devil" was published in Hertfordshire, England. It claimed the devil mowed farmers crops and left strange circles, it is first recorded case of crop circles
8eGQG TIL in 1921, the Football Association of England issued an edict, part of which read "the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged"
9wdGD TIL Newborn babies are 78 percent water, while adults drop down to around 55 percent to 60 percent.
0gOv TIL that the current heir to the former Ottoman Empire, Bayezid Osman, is a US citizen, WWII Veteran, and lives in New York City where he worked as a librarian before retiring. He is 89.
R71Qa TIL the 2013 NASA Astronaut class, which had 4 men and 4 women, is nicknamed the "8-balls"