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TIL: Every fig you’ve ever eaten was fertilized by a special wasp which probably died inside it (and you ate it)

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1akoO TIL the first known appearance of the phrase "Taco Tuesday" is in the October 16, 1933, edition of the El Paso Herald-Post, in an advertisement for the White Star Cafeteria at the St. Regis Hotel.

OAPX TIL the Vatican added 7,000 LEDs to illuminate Michelangelo’s 6,000-square-foot Sistine Chapel ceiling painting. Thanks to this intervention, the work is now more visible to visitors than it has ever been in its 500-year history, including the years in which it was lit by daylight.

69Pxl TIL of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon - an individual dressed in black that was believed to be responsible for gas attacks in Mattoon, Illinois during the 1940s. Despite claims and eye witnesses many have written it off as a mass hysteria event or one caused by the inhalation of pollutants/substances.

jN7xN TIL Susanna Hoffs Recorded 'Eternal Flame' Naked

45x5 TIL The Richest man from China, Jack Ma, was rejected 10 times from Harvard