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TIL: Europa(one of jupiter’s moons) may have more water than Earth

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ElJo TIL when Vietnam invaded Cambodia, the Cambodian king sent a beautiful woman who convinced the Vietnamese commander to withdraw. The Vietnamese then sent a famous general, who also withdrew after meeting the same woman.
woKZ6 TIL that a startup genetically engineered a houseplant with the air purification power of 30 ordinary plants
69RYw TIL that in 1979, during a NHL game between the Rangers and the Bruins, a Rangers fan struck a Bruins player and stole his stick. As a result, almost all of the Bruins went into the stands to confront the fan and beat him up with his own shoe
Z8A1G TIL that red grapefruits were created by growing grapefruit trees next to radioactive material, mutating their DNA to make them more desirable
boG4 TIL in 1959, a white author underwent skin treatments to appear African-American, hitchhiked around the Pre-Civil Rights South to experience hatred and racism firsthand, then wrote a bestselling book about it.