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TIL: New Mexico was actually named 223 years before the country of Mexico was established.

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D4QY TIL there are no white cornerbacks on any NFL roster and there haven’t been any for the past 10 years
N7RQ8 TIL about the jabuticaba tree, the Brazilian grape tree, it is unusual as the berries grow directly on the trunk. They are so popular in some Brazilian states the sidewalk is actually stained purple from their discarded skins of the fruit.
ADJR4 TIL Before the British partitioned India, the spoken language of Urdu and Hindi was referred to collectively as “Hindustani”. When India became independent, Gandhi wanted to keep this Hindustani language. But later Urdu became official language of Pakistan, and Hindi, official language of India
wLJdE TIL That There Is A Statue In Russia That Honors All The Lab Mice That Have Sacrificed Their Life For Genetic Research
BgdOk TIL that the longest recorded time a chicken has been observed flying continuously is 13 seconds, and the furthest recorded flight of a chicken has covered 301.5 feet.