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TIL “vegetable” is a culinary term, not a botanical term.

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ePWL TIL that India celebrates children’s day on Nov 14, exactly 9 months after Valentines day.
Zev TIL there’s a floating island the size of a football field in Springfield, Massachusetts that destroys fences and sheds as it occasionally moves around.
kQAd TIL Early toxicity tests of Penicillin were performed on live mice. Had the tests been run on the other animals at hand (guinea pigs), we might not be using the antibiotic today, because Penicillin is toxic to guinea pigs.
a8pJJ TIL had Napoleon not sold Louisiana (size of 4 French landmass) to the United States in 1803, Britain would've ended up with it after the Napoleonic Wars and modern day Canada would've stretched to the gulf of Mexico.
kGDW TIL that the reason so many south and central Asian countries end in “stan” is because it’s an ancient word for “land of” or “homeland”