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TIL the USDA classifies batter-coated french fries as a "fresh vegetable"

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47DX TIL France owns a small island off the coast of Newfoundland that is entirely comprised of rock (St. Pierre). The streets are carved into the rock, and instead of cemeteries, inhabitants carved tombs into the island which are there to this day.
R879 TIL that one unique danger of working in a tryworks (whaling industry furnace) was that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, “ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man”
neBLY TIL Paul McCartney was arrested in 1973 for “illegal cultivation” after police found him growing cannabis on his farm in England. He claimed the seeds were from a fan and that he didn’t know what they were.
ppeA TIL that despite being a quarter of a million words long, Melville managed to use a unique word (a word that’s only used once in the novel) per every 12 words in Moby Dick.
yV0vw TIL human-made infrastructure etc. outweighs all life on Earth biocubes.net