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4kBYw TIL Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield teamed up to produce edible cannabis sweets in the shape of Holyfield's ear, called "Holy Ears"
ZnKo TIL Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things Fall Apart” has been described as “the first novel in English which spoke from the interior of the African character, rather than portraying the African as an exotic, as the white man would see him”
4keGo TIL that the mitochondria in our cells, which generate energy, are ancient bacteria that had a symbiotic relationship with other single cell organisms and developed around 1.5 billion years ago
LkXxv TIL the tallest cactus ever recorded was over 6 stories tall.
0dmBA TIL that the Blériot XI is the world's oldest flyable plane having first been built in 1909.