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TIL that weeds don’t have any classification and that any plant could be considered a weed.

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KBnQ TIL EINSTEIN once declared that his second greatest idea after the theory of relativity was to add an egg while cooking soup in order to produce a soft-boiled egg without having an extra pot to wash.
woVQo TIL that in Bhutan they prefer to talk about "Gross National Happiness" rather than Gross Domestic Product. Although the idea was conceptualized as early as 1972, it was not until 2008 that the first Bhutanese GNH survey was organized nationwide, thanks to a long questionnaire.
BXLx TIL that the first woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science in the United States also earned a Masters degree in Mathematics and Physics, helped develop computer programming languages, AND she was a Catholic nun.
QJ64M TIL During the height of the Cold War, the US built an embassy in Moscow that was so riddled with eavesdropping equipment, by 1985 the building was abandoned after spending $136 million. Eventually, the embassy was taken apart brick by brick and rebuilt over 15 years at a cost of $240 million.
KYOm6 TIL the first known (partly successful) separation of conjoined twins was in 10th century Byzantium