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TIL Willie Nelson lives in a self-sustaining community in Hawaii with Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson

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6L98 TIL: In the world of botany there’s no such thing as vegetables. It’s a culinary term so there are no plants that are actually classified as vegetables.
79Pb TIL the Megaphragma mymaripenne wasps are smaller than amoebas, at just 200 micrometers in length they have a functional brain and are capable of vision, flight, searching for food and places to lay eggs.
Y7D87 TIL: On July 1, 1942 the American submarine Sturgeon sank the Montevideo Maru that was transporting 1080 prisoners and civilians who were captured after the fall of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.
BgwXd TIL the first documented case of babies being switched at birth in NHS history
9YJoQ TIL The reason men have nipples is because foetuses grow as a female until the Y chromosome kicks in but by that time, the nipples have been created.