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TIL a Shopping Mall in Rhode Island was Partially Converted Into Apartments

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6EPGZ TIL that Purple Passion Fruit (Passiflora incarnata) not only is used as herbal medicine. You can dry and use the leaves to make tea and can also smoke the dry leaf. Study’s shown that the extract from the plant performs as well as some benzodiazepines but with fewer side effects.
Z8a4R TIL: There is a fully intact Roman wine bottle sitting in Germany from the year 350 AD. It's fully drinkable but the Romans added a significant amount of thick olive oil as a preservative.
OG0y4 TIL Donna Summer was the first choice to sing "Its Raining Men" but hated it because as a now born-again Christian, she thought it was blasphemous and sent the songwriters a Bible the next day.”
epVXg TIL tagging content on social media (I.e. hashtags) falls into a classification system called Folksonomy.
8X9P TIL 2013 was the first year without a Loch Ness Monster sighting since 1933