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TIL sugar has at least 56 different names.
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TIL that Liam Neeson is 70 years old
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TIL a man who made a fortune transplanting goat testicles into humans nearly became governor of Kansas.
KOaGE
TIL Cleopatra once boasted to Mark Antony that she could spend ten million sesterces on one dinner. During dessert, Cleopatra called for a goblet of vinegar. She removed a valubale pearl earring and dropped it in. The priceless jewel dissolved, and then Cleopatra drank the mixture.
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TIL analysis of fish caught in giant water surges occurring immediately following the meteorite impact which caused the KPG extinction event, ending non-avian dinosaurs, show this may have happened in boreal spring; austral autumn—contributing to the death of species coming out of hibernation
5ynn
TIL on April Fools’ Day 1957 the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showed a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family “spaghetti tree”. Spaghetti was so little-known that many Britons contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own trees.