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

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R7Yp9 TIL Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26 year old who dedicated his life to protecting leatherback sea turtle nests from poachers on Moin beach in Costa Rica. Him and volunteers, would collects the eggs and guard them in a hatchery. On May 30, 2013, he was kidnapped and murdered.
OoN57 TIL: You can "TAKE YOUR SECRET TO THE GRAVE" without dying. A hollow tombstone in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery has a slot for depositing papers bearing secrets. (But at your own risk: the artist who says she'll burn the papers has done "performance art" of reading aloud her own dead mom's diary.)
D16EJ TIL of Jerome Motto, who was an American psychiatrist and conducted the first suicide prevention intervention that reduced deaths by suicide.
D7og TIL Canada’s decriminalization of marijuana bill in 2002 was scrapped because the DEA threatened to slow trade on the US-Canada border
GY5N4 TIL at the end of each month, the president of USA receives a bill for him and his family’s personal food and expenses including dry cleaning, toothpaste, and toiletries, which is then deducted from his salary.