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TIL quinoa, sunflowers, acai, avocado, chili peppers, papaya, passionfruit, bell pepper, pineapple, squash/pumpkin, pecan, vanilla, allspice, chocolate, kidney/green/lima bean, peanut, cassava, sweet potato, potato, agave, tobacco, sassafras (root beer), and maple syrup are all Native American foods

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wr96 TIL in 1973, a nurse in India was reduced to vegetative state after she was choked with a “Dog Chain and sodomized” by the hospital’s sweeper. The convict served 14 yrs sentence, while she still continues to be in the same state after 42yr. Supreme Court declined plea for euthanasia by an activist
7nb TIL: The fiddle song featured in Ken Burns’ The Civil War was not a Civil War song at all, but “a Scottish lament written by a Jewish guy in the Bronx” in the eighties.
d8lZB TIL that police in Australia spent over $1000 to track down a man who stole a $3.95 bag of Nobby's Nuts by hiding them in his pants
4Xayb TIL that the Philippines was under American rule. Spain ceded the Philippines to America for $20 million.
JYN81 TIL that Billy Joel released a cover of “Make you feel my love” a month before Bob Dylan released the original.