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TIL that only 3% of vodkas worldwide are made from potatoes.

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xVRND TIL Breastmilk has immune-boosting components that are dynamic in responding to your baby’s needs—from age to time of day and even illness.
e0kDE TIL the highest artificial temperature recorded was when scientists at Large Hadron Collider announced that they had temperatures of over 5 trillion K. The team smashed together lead ions at 99% light speed to create quark gluon plasma–a state of matter that filled the universe after the Big Bang.
Yppkv TIL that vegetables as different as cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kale and kai lan are all artificial cultivars of the same species: Brassica oleracea.
DQp4p TIL seafood mislabelling occurs in 25-70%+ of retail products for popular species (red snapper, wild salmon, Atlantic cod). One study found snapper and tuna had the highest mislabeling rates (87% of snapper, 59% of tuna).
dDVmZ TIL about Charles I. D. Looff, a German manufacturer who built the first carousel on Coney Island, the historic Crescent Park carousel, and the Santa Monica Pier in California