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TIL The Bayeux Tapestry's end is missing.
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TIL The orange carrot was first cultivated in the Netherlands in the 16th century. Prior to this, all carrots known to the world were white, yellow and purple varieties.
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TIL that after the Apollo 11 astronauts returned to Earth, they were quarantined for 3 weeks in fear of "lunar plague".
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TIL that there are two kinds of freedom. A person alone in a desert has the perfect negative freedom to choose where to die. A person on a highway has the positive freedom to drive wherever they want, in large part because they don't have the negative freedom to drive on the wrong side of the road.
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TIL the phrase "What would Jesus do?" came out of Christian Socialism, and the belief that the moral teachings of Jesus were thoroughly incompatible with capitalism
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TIL that in North Korea, it’s the year 104