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TIL A neutron star is so dense that a matchbox sized portion of one would weigh 3 billion tons.

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RLN9 [TIL] Nestle agreed in 2001 to ensure its products were not made with slave labor by 2005. In 2005, the international organization it made the agreement with found it had not done so.
JQXk TIL all Hass avocados (the ones bought in stores) are descendants from a single mother tree, which was grown from an unknown seed bought in California in 1926.
yVjR8 TIL it is not safe to drink coyote pee
kEkg TIL there is a small Welsh speaking region of Argentina
9wA56 Today I learned of Seneca Village, a settlement founded by free Black Americans that was seized and razed in 1857 to create New York's Central Park. Wealthy families successfully sued to prevent the seizure of their land that was the original site proposed for a park.