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TIL, there are grapes flavored like cotton candy. David Cain created the unique flavor through plant breeding in 2011. He bred 1,000 plants before perfecting the cotton candy flavor.

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R5ZGj TIL Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer, Was the Daughter of Romantic Poet Lord Byron and Mathematician Anne Isabella Noel Byron. Lord Byron was a renowned Romantic poet known for his passionate and extremely scandalous lifestyle, as well as masterpieces like Don Juan and She Walks in Beauty
OmW6 TIL : Australians 15-44, number one cause of death is suicide.
BgMk TIL when you apply pressure directly to the eyeball it can decrease your heart rate
DQeQJ TIL 80% of the US population lives in the eastern half of the continental US
b97BZ TIL that in 2007, German police identified the DNA of a woman at six murders. Fearing this unknown killer, they offered a 300,000 euro reward for her capture. In 2009, she was identified. She worked at the factory that manufactured the DNA swabs.