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

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OGyx7 TIL about a plant that can 'walk' up to 20 meters per year: The Socratea exorrhiza, or the "walking palm," can slowly move itself to better locations.
bab4 TIL that in 2006, the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia launched a $1.2 million program to retrain prostitutes as nursing-home caregivers. A supporter explained they had “good people skills, aren’t easily disgusted, and have zero fear of physical contact.”
4mJb TIL of the Hess Triangle: the smallest privately-owned plot of land in New York City.
BbVW TIL that you can’t make a true James Bond vesper martini anymore. Kina Lillet was discontinued and reformulated in 1986, making the scene in the Casino Royale movie anachronistic (unless the bar had an old bottle lying around)
16o5W TIL that the defunct semi-pro Canadian Women's Hockey League had two teams in Shenzhen, China for 2 seasons, forcing the Canadian teams to fly 7000 miles there for road games once a season