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TIL Rose plants bear fruit.
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TIL that in general, when asked to picture their own b-day party 20 yrs from now, those who picture the party in first person (thru their own eyes) are likely to save more for retirement than those who picture seeing themselves in 3rd person at the party.
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TIL when kerosene disrupted whale oil for lamps, two companies—Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie—discovered how to harden whale oil into margarine. They bought up all the whale oil, met with success and are a $150B corporation today, better known as Unilever!
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TIL The crime fiction author Patricia Cornwell was called “monstrously stupid” by the curator of a British museum for destroying a painting by Walter Sickert in search of proof he was Jack the Ripper
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TIL: Man Stopped Growing At Six Months Old Is Now 21 And Only 23 Inches Tall
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TIL in 1995 a Hospital in Memphis anonymously received a $1 million McDonalds Monopoly game piece in the mail. McDonalds paid the hospital the prize of $50k for 20 years. It was later learned this piece was acquired as part of a years long scam and mailed to the hospital by the ring leader.