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TIL Taurine supplement makes animals live longer — what it means for people is unclear

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NBvE TIL there is a naturally occurring black rose. They grow in only one place, a small village in Turkey called Halfeti. And they only appear black in the summer months.
0ddvj TIL Billie Holiday was arrested on drug charges in 1947 and tried in utterly bizarre circumstances. The prosecutor asked for leniency, while her defense attorney convinced her to plead guilty, assuring her she'd be sent to a hospital. Instead, the judge sentenced her to a year in federal prison.
gr5e7 TIL that Coca Cola ran a #MakeItHappy Twitter campaign where a bot would turn negative tweets into ASCII art. It was quickly pulled after it kept tweeting lines from Mein Kampf.
4NLg TIL children in Minnesota play ‘Duck, Duck, Grey Duck’ instead of 'Duck, Duck, Goose’
x6P7b TIL of Irene of Athens (750-803 CE), the first sole-ruling empress in Roman history. Her husband the emperor having died, she had her son's eyes gouged, and him imprisoned, becoming sole ruler for 5 years, when she was exiled to the island of Lesbos and forced to support herself by spinning wool.