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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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wpnE TIL Scientists have no clue how a species of seals found in Lake Baikal and the Caspian Sea originated, as these are landlocked waters hundreds of miles away from the closest ocean.
veQD TIL: 75% of IKEA’s product images are not photographs
W1W4 TIL That the second “option” on the plate of a stapler is for temporarily attaching papers together without tearing up the corners of the paper upon removal
gMZjb TIL: Kirby creator HAL Laboratory got its name because "each letter put them one step ahead of IBM".
d8PQB TIL about the case of Carl Tanzler, a Florida man who dug up the body of the “love of his life” Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos, essentially taxidermied her, and then lived with her corpse in his home for 7 years.