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TIL Coriander and Cilantro are the same plant.

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BrlYD TIL the Turkish sultan Alp Arslan took great pride in his archery. When a captured enemy drew his dagger and charged him, Arslan waived his guards away and drew his bow. He missed, got stabbed in the chest and died four days later from his wounds.
1pGW TIL that Snopes occasionally makes up urban legends, just to keep us on our toes.
jY7p TIL Astronaut Scott Carpenter Spoke to President Johnson 200 ft below the surface of the ocean, but he was in a decompression chamber with a helium atmosphere and nobody could understand what he was saying.
ero4 TIL That the Democratic party got it’s donkey symbol because Andrew Jackson’s opponents called him a jackass. Which amused him to the point of making the donkey his party’s symbol.
YplXG TIL It's estimated one in a billion bones gets fossilized. By that calculation the entire fossil legacy of the 320-odd million people alive in the US today will equate to approximately 60 bones – or a little over a quarter of a human skeleton.