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TIL Pennsylvania Leads the World in Junk Food Production

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ADdMd TIL that turkeys will attack or attempt to dominate humans they view as subordinate
9JND TIL a group of crows got so mad at a mask wearing researcher for giving them identification bands that they recruited more crows to harass anyone wearing the same mask years after the fact.
xVEyk TIL of a "pineberry", a white hybrid of the strawberry. It looks just like one, but has the taste of a pineapple. It had been "rescued" by Dutch farmers, and later on, commercially sold in the 2010's. At the moment, they're grown (only) in Japan. They're ~$10.00 per berry.
7rKDr TIL Botox is derived from botulism. “Sausage poison” is what Justinus Kerner called the pathogen in the 1820s; he had observed the paralytic effects after a single giant sausage sickened 13 people, six died. Decades later, named it Bacillus botulinum, after botulus, the Latin word for sausage.
ANg5a TIL Pliny the Elder was a naturalist and author who apparently died trying to mount a boat rescue for victims of the Pompeii disaster.