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TIL the orange colour of the carrot was result of Dutch cultivation in the 17th Century, when patriotic growers turned a vegetable which was then purple into the colour of the national flag

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XEXjR TIL Stephen Marshall American-Canadian vigilante who searched publicly available Sex offender registries in the United States for the names and addresses of convicted sex offenders before traveling to Maine in the Northeastern United States and murdering two.
8eyLV Today I learned that during the American Civil War, approximately 60,000 amputations were performed, accounting for about three-quarters of all surgeries during the conflict.
G884 TIL that in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” a character recognizes a woman’s handwriting by saying “Her c’s, her u’s, and her t’s!”, subtly spelling out the word “cunt” (“and” = n), hence the next line, “And thus she makes her great p’s!” (“pees”)
xB8g TIL that negotiating with any country on behalf of the US is a felony if you haven’t been given the authority to do so.
5n9 TIL: Ravel’s “Boléro” is thought to be a symptom of the neurological condition “progressive aphasia.”