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TIL that jams are made from actual fruit, jellies are made from fruit juice. Preserves have chunks of fruit, conserves have dried fruit or nuts, and marmalades have peel and pulp.

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0d64j TIL that face shape can correspond to body stature, i.e. taller people tend to have longer faces
JYpxj TIL that an AIDS defining illness is Kaposi's sarcoma. This type of cancer is very rare and mostly affected elderly men of Mediterranean or Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. It can be found in AIDS patients of all backgrounds, and causes purplish legions in the skin, lymph nodes, and other organs.
b9JdZ TIL: There are no mosquitoes in Iceland
GZmg TIL in “Team America”, originally, Matt Damon was going to be portrayed as intelligent and articulate, but when they saw the puppet, they noted that it made him “look retarded” and decided to portray him as such.
oBwKL TIL in 2018 NASA scientists have devised a set of new, modern constellations. These include the Hulk, Godzilla, TARDIS, Mjolnir and the U.S.S. Enterprise.