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TIL purple cloth was rare in medieval Europe partially because blue and red dyes were made by separate guilds and use of another guild’s color was forbidden

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lraG TIL that illegible prescription handwriting is responsible for 7000 deaths annually in the US alone.
v1EY8 TIL that due to the lack of natural predators on the Galápagos Islands, the wildlife is very friendly and extremely tame without instinctual fear
LkyVv TIL that since every baby girl is born with up to two million eggs in her ovaries, a woman who is pregnant with a girl is not only carrying her baby — but also the beginnings of her grandchild, and her diet and lifestyle can impact the make-up of the eggs in the child’s reproductive system.
5Ywr8 TIL If microwaved, a sliced grape erupts into a fireball of plasma, an ionized gas that is considered the fourth state of matter.
N7RDJ TIL the name of 1997 film "Gattaca" is based on the letters G, A, T, and C, which stand for guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA.