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TIL there are species of bamboo that can grow an inch every 40 minutes

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69BGw TIL In the 1600s a Dutch doctor Cornelius Bontekoe prescribed a cup of tea as a cure all to ailments. As a cup of tea caught on as a popular drink it led to a drop in mortality rates between 7%-25% across England as boiling coincidentally improved water quality
v1dDK TIL of Krista and Tatiana Hogan, conjoined twins at the head. The twins “share senses of touch and taste, and can even control one another’s limbs.” They can also hear each other’s thoughts without having to speak and see through one another’s eyes.
wLe67 TIL Pistachios are expensive because the trees take up to 20 years to reach peak production, and are "biennial-bearing", meaning a light harvest every other year. The nuts used to be dyed red to hide stains caused by hand picking, most pistachios are now machine picked and dyeing is unnecessary.
DpJr TIL: A japanese guy lost approximately $70 billion during the dot com crash of 2000
m1Jev TIL that not only is the text of the original Draconian laws lost to us, but also that is was merely a codification of preexisting oral law and that it wasn't in fact extraordinarily harsh for those times