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QJYQe TIL that frogs can live over a decade. The oldest known frog lived to 37.
vPB7 TIL there was a plant whose seeds acted as a highly-effective morning-after pill, until it was harvested to extinction
9w8Zr TIL Angola was a part of the Portuguese Empire for 400 years. 1575-1975
x6Mpw TIL that Rubies and Sapphires are all actually the same gemstone. Sapphires can come in all sorts of colors (even multiples at once), it's just that when it's red we call it a Ruby.
QXEM TIL Singer Tom Waits has a song called “The Fall of Troy”, and Post-hardcore band “The Fall of Troy” have a song called “Tom Waits”