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TIL 'Organic' food in the EU does not mean 'no pesticides.' It means up to 28 pesticides allowed.

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LVx9 TIL: During the First Wave of Feminism a Spanish mother raised her child to be the Woman of the Future she spoke 6 languages when eight years old, finished Law School at 17 and then her mother shot her to death.
65rl TIL that the surface gravities of Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all quite similar (within 15%) to Earth’s. Thus, the majority of planets in our solar system actually have Earth-like surface gravity.
9Yo66 TIL in icthyology(study of fish), there is a field called meristics which counts the number of fins and scales to differentiate different fish species.
ne9eG TiL: Australia's only recorded pirate is Black Jack Anderson, an African-American sealer who operated out of limestone cave rich Middle Island. From 1826, he robbed ships, murdered local Indigenous men and kidnapped their women for sex slaves. He is thought to have been murdered by his crew.
DJRY TIL that in weight loss, ~84 percent of the fat that is lost turns into carbon dioxide and leaves the body through the lungs