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TIL that Aegilops (a genus of Eurasian and North American plants in the grass family; types of goatgrass) is the longest English word with letters arranged in alphabetical order.

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R5DAa TIL of Walter M. Gibson, a 19th century adventurer who was a gunrunner in the Caribbean and imprisoned in the East Indies for fomenting rebellion, but while awaiting execution, had a vision of creating an island empire and escaped -- then tried to create that empire as Prime Minister of Hawaii.
QmpM TIL that in 1974 a man died from an overdose of carrot juice.
BrJZb TIL The “Feast of the Wine” was a festival in Ancient Greece celebrating the “Month of the New Wine," using the minerals gypsum & lime to reduce the acidity of the wine.
eOG4 TIL that in 1971 the body of Xin Zhui, a Chinese noblewoman who died in 163 BCE, was discovered remarkably preserved. Her skin was soft and moist, with muscles that still allowed for her arms and legs to flex at the joints.
Y9pP TIL Directors of the Crank movies let their Asian actors say whatever they wanted in their foreign language and was then later subtitled. Asian viewers then questioned why the dialogue being spoken by the characters didn’t match the subtitles.