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TIL asparagus takes 3 years to grow from seed to harvest.

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7rv0x TIL Ted Cassidy, best known as Lurch on the original Addams Family series, was 6 feet and 9 inches tall. He died from a botched surgery to remove a tumor on his heart, which resulted from the condition acromegaly that caused his iconic voice, facial structure and height.
EgZyx TIl: James Cameron drew all the pictures in Jack’s sketchbook. In fact, the hands seen sketching Rose wearing the necklace are not Jack’s but Cameron’s. Since he is left-handed and Jack right-handed, the shots were mirror-imaged in post-production.
l7NX7 TIL that a "culture bound syndrome," or "folk illnes," is a set of psychiatric symptoms that only presents itself in a particular society. One such example is Amok Syndrome from Indonesia, from which we get the term "running amok"
JYj71 TIL many African-Americans have Irish surnames (e.g. Shaquille O'Neal) because Irish and Blacks lived side by side in the ghettos of 19th century America.
oXK7 TIL that seafood eaters ingest up to 11,000 tiny pieces of plastic every year - Researchers from the University of Ghent in Belgium believe that microplastics accumulate in the body over time and could be a long term health risk