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TIL that Because of Evolution Through Artificial Selection, the Wild Mustard Seed has Yielded us Broccoli, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts, and a few Other Foods

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R967 TIL Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams, contains the line “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”
VBGg4 TIL that all of the rubber in a car tyre is one single molecule.
NXgP TIL that Charles Darwin married his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and together they had ten children.
ey4k TIL Listerine was first sold as a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea
w7ZJ TIL one of the inspirations for Ian Fleming’s character James Bond was Dusan Popov, a double agent that handed J. Edgar Hoover the plans for the Pearl Harbor attack. Hoover however, didn’t trust the double agent and did not pass on the information.