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TIL 1 in 3 preteens list influencing as a career goal

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0wmZM Today I learned Vanilla bean plants are actually orchids
dbp8 TIL The first woman to have flown into space(1963), Valentina Tereshkova, also volunteered in 2013 to go on a one-way trip to Mars.
dV9r TIL a school board tried to ban To Kill a Mocking Bird. Harper Lee donated money so that members of the school board could enroll in the first grade and improve their literacy.
LQveP TIL the world's heaviest free-roaming tortoise is an Aldabra giant tortoise named Esmeralda who weighs 670 pounds (304kg), lives on Bird Island, Seychelles & is thought to be as much as 170 years old. He was named by famous botanist/zoologist Lyall Watson.
loWGA TIL: Mavis Beacon is not a real person