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TIL Coriander and Cilantro are from the same plant

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l7ZRG TIL a polar bear swam continuously for 687 kilometres (426 miles) in the Beaufort Sea. She swam for 232 hours or 9 days straight, in waters that were 2-6 degrees celsius, resulting in her cub dying and a drop in her body fat
Ood06 TIL That in 2006 H&R block announced that they had miscalculated their own state taxes, and owed $32 million from the IRS
xvv1 TIL according to Norse mythology, the wolf Fernir was so powerful that dwarves created a special binding made of the roots of a mountain, the sound of a cat’s footfall, the beard of a woman, and the breath of a fish to tie him down…this is why these things no longer exist in the world
aNxJ TIL Washington Square Park in NYC was once a potters field cemetery and where the fountain is today was the location the gallows where the cities guilty were hanged. There are still approximately 20,000 bodies still buried there.
OOvR TIL Sometimes a heart transplant involves keeping the original so that the recipient can have two beating hearts in their chest