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TIL plants can actually sprout within a human body…
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E17ZX
TIL that NASA total spending since 1958 has been close to $1.17 trillion adjusted to inflation. This worth less than two year of US Military Budget combine.
WkXmN
TIL Häagen-Dazs was created in the 1960s by an American couple living in the Bronx. They used a Danish-sounding name because it conveyed an "aura of the old-world traditions and craftsmanship" and added an umlaut even though that punctuation doesn't exist in the Danish language to make it stand out.
4XGEw
TIL that some birds form crèches, a "daycare system" where baby birds separate from their parents and form a group supervised by a few adults, allowing their parents to go forage for food.
KOn6B
TIL Cyprus was going to host the first particle accelerator in the Middle East, but ministers chose to spend the money on hosting the Miss Universe pageant instead.
QL8k
TIL Portugal decriminalized prosecuting all drug users in 2001 but those same drugs are still listed as illegal because “Otherwise we would have gotten into trouble with the UN”