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TIL 789 grams of potent dried cannabis were found buried alongside a 2700 year old light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man in Northwestern China.

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PYOrE TIL of Catherine Yasinchuk, a Ukrainian woman who was wrongly institutionalized for 48 years in a Philadelphia asylum because she did not speak English and no one understood her. She’d come to the USA alone at the age of 15, and suffered a nervous breakdown after losing her husband and baby.
a8rMA TIL: Bananas, avocados, tomatoes, and eggplants are berries, but strawberries aren't. In botanical terms, a berry is a fruit produced from the ovary of a single flower with seeds embedded in its flesh. A strawberry is a "multiple fruit" with many tiny fruits embedded within.
ey6D TIL 6 of the 20 Salem Witch Trials victims were men.
grvZ4 TIL the longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long and takes over three hours to pronounce. It's the chemical name for the largest known protein, often abbreviated as Titin.
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