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TIL Margaret Atwood's popular novel "The Handmaid's Tale," was first adapted into a film back in 1990.

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a8EYb TIL that a genetic mutation made the Arabian Peninsula population lactose tolerent and able to survive on camel milk and live in arid climate. This was a factor in early Muslims' victories over the Persian and Roman empires as Arab fighters could launch raids before retreating deep into the desert
D15oY TIL Burger King filed an official complaint against the movie “It” and tried to get it banned from theaters, claiming unlawful free advertising for McDonald’s since Pennywise is “an exact replica” of Ronald McDonald, thus promoting the rival restaurant.
gMVb7 TIL Jesus Christ is estimated to have been born around the years 6-4 BC
OGYQL TIL a powerful hurricane split historic Captiva Island into two separate islands in 1921. The intensity of the storm cleaved the original island into what is now known as Captiva Island and North Captiva Island, and the storm's devastation ended all agriculture on both of the newly formed islands.
oRwPY TIL: you can plant tomato slices in pots and sprout your own tomato plants.