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TIL That people eat tulips, and cook with them.

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7WMx TIL Patrick Roach (Randy from the Trailer Park Boys) is now a Personal Consultant with an investors group
R7rvw TIL of the Son of Sam laws that state convicted criminals cannot profit in any way from their crimes whether it be from books, tv, film, etc. All proceeds from these deals go directly to the victims or their families.
v0EK TIL pennies are used to adjust the time in London’s Big Ben clock tower. A single penny can change the pendulum’s centre of mass and alter the time by 0.4s per day.
grPrL TIL of George Francis Train. He founded railroads, built parts of the transcontinental railroad and found a horse drawn tram in London. He traveled around the world in 80 days in 1870 and claimed: "Verne stole my thunder. I'mPhileas Fogg".
P6YE TIL the tiny island of Nauru became the world’s richest country per capita in the 60s by mining its phosphate reserves. The country blew it on spending & bad investments (e.g.“Leonardo the musical”). It’s now the ~135th richest country, with 40% diabetes rate and a wrecked environment due to mining.