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TIL The Apple iPod was discontinued in 2022.

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R7lpQ TIL that 99% of the wasabi consumed in the world is not actually wasabi, it’s horseradish + green food colouring. Real wasabia japonica is one of the most expensive crops to grow and is a temperamental semiaquatic herb native to the mountain streams of central Japan.
rRDvM TIL about a Confederate cemetery in Oxford Mississippi. Currently there is only one large marker for the cemetery, there use to be individual headstones for each plot but years ago the groundskeeper moved them to cut the lawn and forgot where they belonged.
vlvj TIL any member of the French Foreign Legion wounded while defending France can immediately apply for French citizenship as he is “French by spilled blood”
J1y41 TIL That back in 1739, measurements of the Earth were made that were so accurate, modern measurements of the circumference only differ by less than 8km. 40,000km -> 40,007.863km
mxKOy TIL the common swift has been documented to fly 10 months continuously,