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TIL That the carrot was originally cultivated for its leaves and seeds. It comes in six or more colours, each with unique nutritional properties.

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QJE0L TIL the longest surgery to date was a 96-hour marathon to remove a 300-lb ovarian cyst from a 600-lb woman. Simply hacking it out would have killed her, so the surgeon gradually drained fluid from the cyst over the course of four days, shrinking it to 100 lb. and allowing for a successful removal.
Gmy1 TIL of a man named Chen Si who since 2004 has devoted his free time to patrolling the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, the most popular suicide site in the world, and has saved more than 300 people from jumping
VB6oZ Today I learned that cars in the early 1900s didn’t have windshield wipers. Drivers had to stop every so often to wipe the glass with a cloth—until Mary Anderson invented the wiper and pushed it to market despite all the doubts. A lot of car manufacturers thought it would distract drivers!
kOx0m TIL that cranberry sauce cans always have the label on 'upside-down' so that it will be stocked on shelves in the correct orientation, in order to preserve an air bubble in the can that makes it possible to get it out in one piece without having to open both ends.
QNQpd TIL that butterflies taste through 'chemoreceptors' in their feet. As soon as they land on a plant, they can detect whether it is sense sweet, bitter, sour or salty.