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TIL an enslaved boy discovered Vanilla Pollination

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X0M4Q TIL Surya Bonaly landed a back flip on one foot during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics
j6Vva TIL that there are 10,000 stars in the universe for every grain of sand on Earth
wKx8 TIL sloths will remain hanging off branches after death, and often will not fall even after being shot
p4BZ TIL that Marjoe Gortner, forced as a child into the role of “World’s Youngest Evangelist”, made an Oscar-winning exposé on the tricks, scams, and manipulation involved in southern evangelism.
d1QK TIL of the Instructions of Shuruppag, possibly the oldest decipherable document int he world. It contains such wisdom as “You should not pass judgment when you drink beer” and “Property is something to be expanded, but nothing can equal my little ones.”