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TIL that Wasabi is one of the most medicinally active plants on Earth and one of the 7 main culinary ingredients in Japan

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6EOQm TIL William Blythe died in a one-vehicle car accident when the vehicle overturned and threw him into a ditch, where he drowned. Blythe was on his way to Arkansas from Chicago to pick up his 5th wife, Virginia, and her unborn son Bill, who would later go on to become the 42nd President.
QKAd TIL: The Notrious B.I.G. had 2 kids and his son recently graduated high school and proposed to his boyfriend.
wLNNo TIL about the secret bunker at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia that was meant to house Congress in case of a nuclear fallout during the Cold War
OopAa TIL that the Roman Colosseum had a retractable cloth awning which weighed about 24 tons and was held up by a large network of ropes and 240 huge pillars. It covered 30% of the entire Colosseum and provided shade for all of the spectators.
Yxdx TIL: M.A.R.A.U.D.E.R was a US weapon able to produce doughnut shaped rings of plasma and balls of lightning that exploded with devastating effects when hitting its target. The project’s initial success led to it becoming classified and no more details of how it developed after 1993 are available