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TIL that carrots used to be purple until the late 16th century

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4kEmw TIL researchers recently discovered an Obsidian handaxe-making workshop from 1.2 million years ago in the Awash valley in Ethiopia
LQVB9 TIL The UK has been rabies-free since the beginning of the 20th century.
764x TIL that when Koichi Tanaka of Japan won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2002, he became the first to only have a bachelor’s degree. Tanaka was so unknown that he was on the second-lowest job level at the obscure Shimadzu Corp. The embarrassed scientific-instrument maker immediately promoted Tanaka.
M7G87 TIL That while some citric acid is derived from lemon juice, the majority of citric acid commercially sold is extracted from a black mold called Aspergillus niger, which produces citric acid after it feeds on sugar
10oV TIL that for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, one of the stadiums is being built in the northern district of Ash-Shamal (348 sq. miles), with a population less than 8,000 people. The stadium being built seats 45,330 people.