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TIL In 1774, Frederick the Great ordered Prussians to grow potatoes as protection against famine, but the populace were disgusted by them and refused. The king then planted “royal potato field” but allowed peasants to steal from it, which re-marketed the potato into a major food crop.

9GXM TIL Los Angeles and its suburbs, home to 19 million people, is the only megacity in the world where mountain lions live side by side with humans.
DQvBe TIL that chainsaws were originally invented to aid childbirth.
ZKxa TIL: In Arkansas you can legally catch and keep a wild fox
PPaZ TIL Australia has claimed the largest territory of Antarctica
JYJEV TIL Hippos can't really swim, but instead walk or sometimes run on the riverbed