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TIL Quinoa is so nutritionally dense and complete that it is being considered a possible crop in NASA’s Controlled Ecological Life Support System for long-duration manned space expeditions.

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Oo1X TIL that a mentally ill artist committed suicide by handcuffing himself to a tree and throwing away the key. His skeleton was found 3 years later (with signs suggesting he may have changed his mind).
N7wJb TIL in 2008 Prince Charles paid a nearly 400 years old debt of £453.15, made by King Charles II, who did not have enough money for the clothes of his soldiers, before the last battle of the British civil war.
kOJaW TIL that U.S. paper money "utilizes green ink on the backs, but faces use black, color-shifting, metallic ink, and other inks which are specially formulated and blended by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing"
00kj TIL that more than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year around the world from using equipment meant for right-handed people. The right-handed power saw is the most deadly item.
oRrXA TIL that pyramid schemes were such a problem in Albania that in 1997 the country was engulfed in a civil war for the next 6 months due to its citizens being scammed, losing nearly 1.2 billion USD, while having a nominal GDP of 2.25 billion USD.