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

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Z1RB TIL that in 2005 the FBI spent two years chasing down leaders of “God Hates Goths” church before realizing the whole thing was a parody
x6Pg TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin lost chess games to an 18th century wooden robot with a chessmaster hiding inside.
E1A7o TIL that Charles Darwin's children left doodles all over the original "On the Origin of Species" manuscript.
nePeY TIL Whales migrate the farthest of any mammal on Earth, and may do so to hunt in the cold waters during summer and shed layers of skin and accumulated microorganisms in the tropical water during winter.
eXx4 TIL that Jessica Simpson became addicted to nicotine gum but has never smoked, she was given the gum by accident.