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TIL white asparagus is actually the same species as green asparagus, its shoots are simply covered with soil to avoid photosynthesis

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ZppbB TIL when an electrocuted human gets launched across a room, it is not from the current itself, but rather our muscles contracting all at once from the current.
XEarX TIL that during the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln's name did not appear on the ballot of 10 southern states, but he still won by a landslide.
16AN8 TIL there's a digital SPFX programme named 'Kierasil' that is used for skin touch ups, named after Keira Knightly who was the actress the SPFX company invented it for.
E1JXV TIL that Eric Stolz was the original Marty McFly in Back to the Future, but was replaced by Michael J. Fox about a month into production because director Robert Zemeckis "felt that he wasn't getting what he needed from Stoltz."
E1dQX TIL that Abraham Lincoln refused to carry a knife, because he suffered from depression, and feared he would harm himself