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TIL - Lima beans are young Butter Beans

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AyG4 TIL the practice of selling one’s kidney for profit in Iran is legal and regulated by the government. It is estimated that 1,400 Iranians sell one of their kidneys annually. Iran is the only country in the world that allows this and has neither a waiting list nor a shortage of available organs.
DQYWD TIL Limp Bizkit was the last band to play on top of the World Trade Center in September 2000.
YpGWv TIL: John Paul DeJoria, founder of Paul Mitchell Hair Products, also founded Patrón Tequila.
DQNAV TIL that Kim Walker, who played Heather Chandler in the 1989 film Heathers in which she famously asked “Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?” died of a brain tumor in 2001.
5YaJP TIL about Americathon, a !979 movie that perdicted that in 20 years, The Soviet Union would collapse, China would become a superpower, and Nike, then a small shoe company in Oregon, would become a huge multinational corporation.