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TIL that all variations of tea – white, yellow, green, oolong, black and post-fermented – derive from the exact same plant.

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gM467 TIL that the only factory in the world that produces Coffee Crisp is located in Toronto, Canada, and that the chocolate bar itself is sold almost exclusively in Canada.
N9Qe TIL the three wise monkeys (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil) are sometimes portrayed with a fourth ‘do no evil’ monkey with his hands covering his genitals.
mxgpy TIL a single worksheet on Microsoft Excel contains 16,384 rows and 1,048,576 columns, for a total of 17,179,869,184 cells.
WroA TIL that Kinji Fukasaku, the director of ‘Battle Royale,’ had worked in a weapons factory that was frequently bombed during WWII. “We would try to get behind each other or beneath dead bodies to avoid the bombs… it made me understand about the limits of friendship.”
oRR88 TIL on 2016, Murray Pringle managed to obtain the Pringle baronetcy over cousin Simon after DNA testing proved Simon's grandfather wasn't the biological son of Sir Norman Pringle, 8th Baronet but was utterly unrelated to the clan