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TIL Pork fat is ranked 8th among top 100 most nutritious foods, just below Swiss chard 7th, Pumpkin seeds 6th, and then Chia seeds 5th.

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QJoGX TIL about Nikolai Vavilov who, obsessed with ending famine, created the world's largest collection of plant seeds, advancing the genetic study of cultivated plants. He faced anti-Mendelian forces during the Stalin era, leading to arrest in 1940. Ironically, he died in captivity, by starvation.
9w7kB TIL Seiryu Miharashi Eki - The GHOST STATION with no entrances or exits built solely to remind people of the importance of nature and to admire the landscape.
yVrJv TIL that in women’s Olympic gymnastics, under the ‘perfect 10’ scoring system seven female gymnasts attained a perfect 10. The scoring system was changed in 2006 and no one has been awarded a perfect score since.
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