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TIL learned why Scotts and other fertilizers are so expensive nowadays.

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e0GVD TIL That in Georgian Britain, hiring of "Ornamental Hermits" for estates was a short-lived trend.
Maw0 TIL: Neerja Bhanot, a 22-year-old Indian air hostess who helped hide 41 American passports aboard a hijacked plane. She died shielding three children from gunfire and was posthumously awarded bravery medals from India, Pakistan, and the United States.
glyy TIL of Philippe Servaty, a Belgian journalist who photographed himself having sex with over 80 girls in Morocco; he had promised to take them to Europe, but then he ditched them and published the photos online.
p8jnQ TIL Peruvian chicken (Pollo a la Brasa) was created by a pair of Swiss men living in Peru in the 1950s
b6Zn0 TIL: the term is milquetoast (timid, weak, unassertive), not milk toast. It originates from the 1924 comic strip character Caspar Milquetoast. However, the origin is that he's named after a "weak", bland dish of...milk toast (buttered toast served in a shallow bowl of warm milk).