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TIL the upper survival time limit of properly stored seeds remains unknown. The oldest viable seed that has grown into a full plant was an about 2,000 years old Judean date palm seed

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Y7xBA TIL that Wacker Drive in Chicago has three levels and is the only street in the city to have addresses with all four cardinal directions (N,S, E, W).
0dmgR TIL In China, for many village women, marriage is the primary means of changing their lives. Most of them marry up - moving from the mountain areas to the plains, from the villages to towns and cities, and from the poorer classes to the richer.
6Eanm TIL about Jean baptiste Kim who defected from South korea because his family faced incarceration.After being a french citizen he worked for the North korean authorities for 11 years, and served as the foreign correspondent for North korean newspaper Rodong shinmun.
QNL69 TIL: In 1562, Spanish bishop Diego de Landa burned 27 Mayan manuscripts in front of the Maya people of Maní, Yucatan. This was an attempt to erase their memories of their Gods and beliefs so that they were more easily coerced into converting to Catholicism. Today, only four Mayan manuscripts exist.
VJdB TIL that Swedish and Scandanavian dress up as witches and go door to door asking for candy…on Easter.