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TIL that the reason so many traditional legal terms come in pairs (aid and abet, null and void, part and parcel, will and testament) is that old English courts used English terms along with Latin or French terms to avoid confusion.

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ky4g TIL all figs are pollinated by wasps as they are basically inverted flowers and can’t be pollinated otherwise. If it’s a female plant the wasp can’t escape and the fig plant slowly digests the wasp’s body with enzymes. So all edible figs have a digested wasp in them.
1B74 TIL that Astronomers Have Spotted Oldest and Most Distant Galaxy Ever Observed at 30 Billion Light Years Away
xVYG0 TIL about the Great Green Wall, an effort to plant trees to stop desertification in the Sahara that began in 2007. Ethiopia has planted over 5.5 billion seedling since.
x6180 TIL that Bumblebees are capable of flying at altitudes higher than Mount Everest!
xVb6w TIL that a burrito is legally not a sandwich. A Massachusetts judge ruled in White City v. PR Restaurants that "the term "sandwich" is not commonly understood to include burritos, tacos, and quesadillas"