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TIL: Sweet Potatoes are a commercial crop in Ontario, Canada
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TIL of the 10,000 Year Clock, a clock being built inside a mountain in Texas, designed to run for 10,000 years, without electricity, even if no one ever visits.
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TIL NBC rejected a scene of bodies being shown splayed open and hung from a ceiling on the show Hannibal because their butts were visible. Executive producer Bryan Fuller suggested “What if we filled the butt cracks with blood so we couldn’t see the cracks?”. NBC accepted to then show the scene.
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TIL King Orodes of Parthia abdicated in favour of his son Phraates IV, who consolidated his reign by promptly murdering his father and thirty of his brothers.
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TIL The Great Pyramid of Giza Has Eight Sides and Not Four
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TIL that there is a method of teaching in Buddhism called 'wrathful teaching' wherein the teacher deliberately provokes anger, confusion, and other negative emotions in students for the purpose of their spiritual advancement