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TIL One cup measure for baking/cooking can vary by country making a big difference in the outcome of recipes.

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VBVLB TIL in some countries on different continents, it has rained snakes, frogs, toads, jellyfish, worms, octopi, shellfish, and starfish throughout history
XRLj TIL all the penicillin in the world comes from a single moldy cantaloupe in Illinois
adr9 TIL The Bornean Bay Cat is one of the rarest wild cats in the world – Only 12 specimens have been studied between the years of 1874 and 2002, and the species was never caught on film until 2009.
11n4 TIL the liqueur Curaçao is made from orange trees brought to the Caribbean from Spain in 1527. The trees failed to thrive and were abandoned. The fruit evolved from sweet orange into bitter green. Experimentation with dried peels of the fruit later led to the creation of the liqueur Curaçao.
DjVe TIL If it wasn’t for Jupiter’s gravitational pull, Earth would have been destroyed by meteors by now