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TIL that despite being synonymous with blandness, vanilla is one of the most complex spices in the world and the second most expensive, next to Saffron.

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jNQka TIL That the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was so powerful that it sped up the earth's rotation and shortened the day by several microseconds.
awalJ TIL Courtney Cox is the first person on tv to say the word "period" for menstruations
8a5PP TIL that a Florida man recognized himself in the background in the iconic cover of Abbey Road
OogK7 TIL that aerial dogfights were fought with pistols before they figured out how to properly install machine guns into planes.
wLJQo TIL A future Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force decided to become an aviation engineer when as a boy was catching sweets from the American planes during the Berlin Airlift. Dr. Yarymovych worked also for NASA on Apollo program and is credited with initiation of GPS