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TIL "corn smut" is a food, and apparently tasty if you're a mushroom person.

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4XLWg TIL in 1939 Russian minister Vyacheslav Molotov claimed bombing missions over Finland as humanitarian food deliveries for their starvng neighbours. The Finns dubbed them "Molotov bread baskets". When the firebomb was developed, the Finns called it "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with the food"
X0p96 TIL that in 1069 Norman forces perpetrated a genocide in northern England called ‘the Harrying of the North’
VBnm4 TIL that half of the top ten most violent cities, in all of America, are in fact small towns.
b9Vg7 TIL American actor Martin Lawrence was born in Germany. He was named after Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He has a lifetime ban from Saturday Night Live.
XgoR TIL that the star Betelgeuse, in the constellation Orion, is 500 times bigger and emits 16,000 times more visible light than the Sun. If it were in our solar system, its surface would extend to the orbit of Jupiter.