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TIL all the different “colors” of tea depend on how they’re processed. They’re all from the same plant.

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b6BRj TIL about badge engineering, which is the practice of marketing a vehicle under 2 or more brand names. A good example being the 2010 Ford Escape, Mercury Mariner, & Mazda Tribute, shown here
4XMpX TIL Madonna was very keen to record the vocals for the song Teardrop by Massive Attack, but Robert Del Naja and Grantley Marshall chose Elizabeth Fraser feeling her ethereal style suited the mournful melody and feel of the piece.
Nbk1 TIL-John Wesley Hardin shot and killed a man for snoring too loudly in a hotel.
8eJb TIL that there is a town in Spain where 700 people are descended from 17th century samurai who stayed there after an embassy returned to Japan. They have the surname “Japón”, which was originally “Hasekura de Japón”
j6wxN TIL that a 2009 VH1 reality dating show titled, Megan Wants a Millionaire, was cancelled after only 3 episodes because a contestant that had made the finals & placed 3rd was charged w/ the murder of his wife and declared a fugitive before eventually being found having committed suicide.