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TIL That blood isn’t exactly what you think it is, blood is actually a form of tissue called a fluid connective tissue.

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X6NR TIL that pistachios were dyed red to cover imperfections on the shells due to the harvesting methods when grown in the Middle East. But now 98% of pistachios are grown in California, which why you don’t see red pistachios anymore.
4kebR TIL 18 aircraft from the US Army Air Forces' 100th Bombardment Group were sent on an Allied bombing raid on Münster, Germany in 1943. 5 were forced to turn back before reaching Münster & of the 13 that carried on, only 1 plane returned to base. The group became known as the "Bloody Hundredth."
aAa9 TIL that your brain can still process information garnered through your eyes even if your visual cortex is damaged or doesn’t work at all. You can ‘see’ without seeing.
eM05 TIL that only about 22% of people have the genes necessary to smell “asparagus pee”
JVW4 TIL Alexander the Great once asked Diogenes, a homeless Greek philosopher who lived in a barrel, if there was something he could do for him. Diogenes replied “yes, get out of my sun”. Alexander left saying, “If I wasn’t Alexander, I’d like to be Diogenes.”