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TIL that there is a Japanese family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1300 years.

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X058D TIL First grown in Africa about 5,000 years ago, yellow watermelons went through generations of selective cross-breeding for texture, color and sweetness before any pink variety ever appeared. As the lycopene content of hybrid varieties increased over time, the fruit naturally became redder and redd
N7MG8 TIL that a Caesar salad at McDonald's contains more calories and fat, as well as less protein, than a double Big Mac
0dgDj TIL that spider blood is blue and you are on average never more than 10 feet away from the nearest spider (with some geographical exceptions).
9Y1br Today I learned that Elvis Costello went by the pseudonym “Napoleon Dynamite” for his 1986 LP “Blood and Chocolate.” Jared Hess, Director of the 2004 film claims there is no connection.
V1G4 TIL that a boy named Hadara was lost by his parents in the Sahara desert at the age of two, and was apprehended, and raised by ostriches for a period of ten years.