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Today I Learned that you can’t find broccoli in the wild since it was created by humans by breeding it from wild cabbage.

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x6O7o TIL of Sarah Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus", an African woman from the Khoikhoi tribe who was brought to Regency-era London to showcase her large buttocks. She was depicted in cartoons comparing behinds with Whig politician William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, who was nicknamed "broad bottom".
NYge TIL in June 2012 Bloomberg’s international currency software briefly showed an entry called the ‘Post Euro Greek Drachma’. The currency had a brand new code (XGD) and was quickly removed from public view.
epwGL TIL about "The Pearl": An underground pornographic magazine issued monthly between 1879 and 1880. Its contents were three serial erotic tales simultaneously, devoted to sex in high society, incest, and flagellation. It was shut down by the British authorities for violating standards of obscenity.
W0P8 TIL one of the eight rules in the American mafia is that you cannot have facial hair.
5V5XR TIL The original lyrics to 'Le Freak' were 'fuck off'. Written after the band was denied entry to Studio 54 New Years eve 1977.