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TIL corn is man made and would not exist without selective breeding.

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NXw5Q TIL giraffes and humans both have 7 neck vertebrae
oBDAA TIL of Nathaniel Gordon, the only person in the United States to be executed for attempting to sell human beings. Abraham Lincoln refused to commute Gordon’s sentence, despite thousands of people petitioning him for clemency.
X0nV8 TIL about Ina Benita, "the first Polish femme fatale", an interwar movie star that was believed dead after the Warsaw Uprising, but completely anonymously lived in the US until 1984. Her grandson only discovered this 30 years after her death. (translation from DE wiki due to depth)
oxVo TIL Military Buried In Arlington National Cemetery Who Are Norse Pagan Can Now Have Thor’s Hammer On Their Tombstone.
nWJG TIL America has a ‘green street’ which is paved with 'smog-eating cement’