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TIL that The National Library of Medicine has a Pillbox dataset made up of 8,693 photographs of pills, with an accompanying database of drug information. It was built to help with the identification of unknown pills.

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oBQAY TIL that Cacao trees may actually live up to 200 years. Interestingly, they produce beans for just 25 years of their lifespan. It takes about a year for a cocoa tree to produce enough pods to make just about 10 small-sized chocolate bars.
4Xyjw TIL the Earth is rocketing through space at 1.3 million MPH.
oR4ao TIL The odds of being attacked by a great white shark are about 1 in 11.5 million, which are much lower than the odds of being struck by lightning.
OopEX TIL actor Donald O'Connor (born 1925) 7 year old sister died from being hit by a car. Few weeks later, his father died of a heart attack; his brother Billy died a decade later from scarlet fever and his eldest sibling Jack died from alcoholism in 1959. His three other siblings died during childbirth
KY0xa TIL the Flathead Indian Reservation in Western Montana has a growing Amish community within it.