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TIL that there IS a word that ryhmes with orange. Sporange is a botany term for a spore holding capsule in types of fungi, molds and ferns,

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4rr6 TIL Lana Del Rey called feminism boring..“For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept. I’m more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what’s going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.”
BgZdW TIL Violet Constance Jessop was a women who not only survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 but also survived the sinking of Titanic’s sister ship the Britannic in 1916, but not before surviving a collision the eldest of the three sister ships the RMS Olympic had with HMS Hawke in 1911.
OGjR1 TIL shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes
nm6Y TIL that Ben Cohen, co founder of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, cannot smell. The reason the ice cream is characteristically chunky is because in order to compensate for his lack of taste he would add big pieces of fruit to the ice cream to satisfy his need for texture in food.
Aa4B TIL people who are uninterested in religious debate about god(s) existence and that any debate is useless are called apatheists