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TIL that the vast majority of organisms make their own Vitamin C. Humans are one of the few species that cannot synthesize it.

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DJkj TIL that microwave turntables that reverse direction every time they are used do so only because of a byproduct of something done to make microwaves cheaper to manufacture
KOknw TIL there is more genetic diversity among those from the African continent than the rest of the world
R79R1 TIL of Seki Takakazu, a mathematician described as "Japan's Newton", who independently discovered many results attributed to his European contemporaries, some of which were rediscovered only centuries later.
d8bRB TIL in January 1979, Vietnam's army entered Phnom Penh to end the genocide that killed nearly 1/4 of all Cambodians. Shortly after, most of the UN denounced Vietnam and placed it in sanctions
8aXOK TIL that Constantine V of the Byzantine Empire (r. 741-775) was so loved for his ability as a general that following the defeat of the Byzantine army by the Bulgarians at the battle of Pliska in 811, a group of soldiers broke into his tomb and begged his corpse to come back and lead them again.