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TIL that thanks to Bromelain, a digestive enzyme found in some fruits, when you eat pineapple, the pineapple is eating you back! Same for kiwi and papaya.

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m1WBv TIL about the "Tokyo Tower of Babel," a proposed 10 Kilometer tall tower that was designed to house up to 30 million people and was intended to be built in Tokyo Bay. If completed, it would have been the tallest structure in the world, but it remains an ambitious concept.
P7Bg TIL that many ancient Egyptian Pharaohs were overweight and unhealthy, in contrast to their typical depiction. That was likely due to a sugary diet of alcohol, bread and honey.
VLnp TIL: the “1 in 5 college girls are sexually assaulted” study included “forced kissing” and “sexual activity while intoxicated” as sexual assault, which is how they got the 1 in 5 number.
KYQeB TIL when Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson was a teen, he dreamt of having a Gibson guitar. He would go to his nearest music store in Toronto, play Gibson guitars for about an hour before he’d get kicked out, and then he would come back to that store every weekend and repeat the whole process again.
J1KE8 TIL that Queen Elizabeths mother, who died in 2002, lived so long that she was born in the Victorian era