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TIL carrots used to be purple until they were bred orange.

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ZpXbp TIL after Amanda Berry disappeared in 2003, a self-proclaimed psychic, Sylvia Browne, went on television and determined that Berry was dead and was "in water." Amanda Berry was found alive in 2013 after escaping the home of a man who imprisoned her and two other women for over a decade.
kDng TIL a Comcast customer who was constantly dissatisfied with his internet speeds set up a Raspberry Pi to automatically send an hourly tweet to @Comcast when his bandwidth was lower than advertised.
nW8eP TIL Sofia Coppola was so adamant that she only wanted Bill Murray to play movie star Bob Harris in Lost In Translation, she personally sent him his $2 million salary even though he hadn't signed a contract & they hadn't spoken since their first meeting. He showed up 1 week before the scheduled start
Ro1a TIL that in states that have legalized no-fault divorce, domestic violence rates dropped by 30 percent, and female suicide declined between 8 and 16 percent, while showing no lasting effect on divorce rates.
lRGB TIL there is an area in China with so many Africans that it has the nickname Chocolate City