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TIL cilantro tastes like “soap” to some people, and it is most-likely a genetically inherited trait

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6JrJ TIL that British Columbia woodsman Francis Wharton shot a deer in the late 1960s but had no serviceable teeth with which to eat it so he fashioned dentures out of the deer’s own teeth and ate it.
R7G6 TIL that Mexico threatened to stop buying US corn unless they could sell the US avocados.
xMnB TIL astronomer Ptolemy thought that the gods, out of curiosity/boredom, would peer down at the earth from between the spheres; when this happened, stars would slip out of this gap, flashing towards the earth. Shooting stars meant that the gods are now paying attention to whatever you would wish for.
4XMjw TIL that during the Bengal famine of 1943, Canada, US, and Australia made offers to export wheat to India, but Winston Churchill said India has adequate stocks and instead diverted the food stocks to the Mediterranean to stock up for the Tunisia Campaign. Three million Indians died due to the famine
LQpRQ TIL the light in John Lennon's childhood bedroom is left on overnight on his birthday