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TIL Peppermint is a natural hybrid between spearmint and water mint.

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gQpb TIL that adding a trace of blue dye to laundry, called “bluing,” actually makes the whites appear whiter. It is a technique also used on white hair, thus “blue haired old ladies.”
7ro1O TIL Scientists exploring the Abanda caves in Gabon discovered a unique group of crocodiles. They are almost blind due to living in total darkness, permanently soaked in a toxic mix of bat feces and water which turned their skin orange. They adapted to a diet of bats crickets
agNb TIL It takes the whole year’s crop from one Cocoa tree to make 450gms of Chocolate.
Elow TIL that in 1991 an F-15 fighter achieved an air-to-air kill using a 2000lb bomb. The USAF F-15E Strike Eagle of the 335th Tactical Fighter Squadron released a GBU-10 Paveway II laser-guided bomb which, after 30 seconds of flight, impacted an Iraqi Air Force Mil Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunship.
7rO0L TIL Lenin and Stalin once teamed up to rob a bank.