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TIL Salmon literally rot alive when they migrate back to spawn

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W7wR9 TIL that certain U.S. cities such as Bloomington, Minnesota and Lexington, Kentucky have banned female ginkgo trees. This is because the female ginkgo trees have seeds that contain butyric acid, which is also found in rancid butter, and can smell like vomit or rotten eggs.
jNgYX TIL about the Harvard computer science professor who built a distance learning empire.
nEGP TIL Ethiopia has a celebrity TV chef who believes he can combat his country’s hunger problems by encourating everyone to eat more diverse foods
LkbJV TIL: The unrefrigerated milk they buy in Europe has a shelf life of up to SIX MONTHS when unopened, compared to just 7-10 days in the US and Canada thanks to different pasteurization methods.
JGPl TIL of the “Hygiene Hypothesis”, which states that a kid’s environment can be too clean to stimulate a kid’s immune system resulting in those kids getting sick more than kids brought up in households in which the parents don’t constantly douse everything/everyone in disinfectant & hand sanitizer.