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TIL vegetables in Alaska grow gigantic because they receive 20 hours of sunlight a day

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BbXx TIL Richard Nixon repeated “The Jewish cabal is out to get me.” several times in private conversations.
kl17 TIL Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the man for whom the guillotine was named, was an opponent of the death penalty. His family was so embarrassed to have the guillotine named after them that when the French government refused to rename of the machine, they changed their family name instead.
rk14 TIL “Withholding sex and affection” is considered “Sexual Violence” according to the University of Michigan
x66K1 TIL about Charles Wicksteed who invented the modern-day slide and swing in the 1920's, installing them at Wicksteed Park in Kettering, Northamptonshire
P5JL TIL there is only one species of cactus that can be found naturally occurring outside the Americas