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TIL Sunflower roots are edible both raw or cooked. They are easy to grow and disease-free through heat and drought. [Sunchokes taste similar to water chestnuts and jicama.]

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6E5vJ TIL the lyric “they stab it with their steely knives” from “Hotel California” by the Eagles is a nod to Steely Dan for the free publicity they gave them when the Eagles were mentioned in a lyric from Steely Dan’s song “Everything You Did” which goes “turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening”.
bZAa TIL that a woman who disappeared in 1937 was found floating in a lake 3 years later, and her body had turned into soap.
R5gy6 TIL that the first Supreme Court confirmation hearing was held in 1916 - because President Woodrow Wilson nominated a Jew for the seat
OaNg TIL some Matrix fans believe that Neo’s special powers worked in the “real world” because the real world was another simulation, suggesting an Inception-esque “Matrix within a Matrix” system.
4DrR TIL John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) called out notorious pedophile radio personality Jimmy Savile for his crimes in 1978.