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TIL that Different Races have Different Types of Earwax

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YpREA TIL Sir Walter Raleigh, British explorer and historian, first brought the potato to Ireland and planted them at his Irish estate. His cooks, who had never cooked potato before, served the leaves and stems (which are poisonous) making everyone sick. Potatoes were then banned from the court.
yQ47p TIL the first song Joshua Radin ever wrote and recorded (on his roommate’s computer) was ‘Winter’, which was featured at the end of arguably the best Scrubs episode, ‘My Screw Up’. He was friends with Zach Braff because they went to Northwestern together. It launched his music career.
M7mR8 TIL the only English Pope choked on a fly and died.
WBmd TIL 6 Nasa recruits are living for a year under a 36ft in diameter x 20 ft tall dome in Hawaii, to simulate life on Mars. They must wear a spacesuit when outside the dome. Recruits are: A French astrobiologist, German physicist and 4 Americans (pilot, architect, journalist, soil scientist).
b6P60 TIL Taylor Swift has reached billionaire status and is one of the world's richest female musician