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TIL Zimbabwe has the highest traffic related death rate in the world

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XEWDE TIL that White Button, Cremini, and Portabello Mushrooms are all the same mushroom, just at different levels of growth and maturity.
Rd07 TIL that the name for the coffee company “Starbucks” comes from Captain Ahab’s first mate in the classic novel Moby Dick, who was named Starbuck.
4B76 TIL Gandhi believed that German Jews should have committed collective suicide
epaLn TIL Big Bird was supposed to be on the Challenger shuttle, but couldn't fit, and was replaced by Christa McAuliffe
X0Xgj TIL that Comet Swift-Tuttle is the largest comet to make repeated close approaches to Earth. A collision would release 27 times the energy of the impact that caused the extinction of dinosaurs. It has been described as "the single most dangerous object known to humanity".