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

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9YrQD TIL that in order 'to satisfy every European's musical taste', Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the EU anthem, has been officially adapted into other genres such as jazz, hip-hop, trance, techno, and Romani folk. All of those versions are free to listen to on the Council of Europe's page.
yQQGw TIL cigs can really fuck you up
QeDd TIL that transportation casualties have risen after increased airport security measures were introduced after 9/11, because people choose to drive instead of flying, and therefore more people died in car accidents.
XEX0R TIL that Magda and Joseph Goebbels in the last days of WWII and while confined to the Führerbunker, arranged to have all 6 of their children killed with cyanide as they slept. They believed the children would support their decision to commit suicide if they were old enough to speak for themselves.
M70n0 TIL that Thomas Edison developed the concrete to build Yankee Stadium in 1922 before his company went bankrupt shortly after completion.