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TIL That California has a similar GDP to Brazil.

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kOVY4 TIL Raw Manuka honey kills every bacteria scientists throw at it, including antibiotics-resistant superbugs
16RK8 TIL that in 2021 a woman in South Africa claimed to have given birth to 10 babies at once. A government inquiry found the claim to be untrue, but the news organisation who first reported the story has alleged that it was a cover-up. The woman has not been seen or heard from since.
wB0E TIL that in 1909 two chemists invented an industrial process to harvest nitrogen from the air. Today, the nitrogen from that process keeps roughly 3.5 billion people alive.
AD6lg TIL White Clover can be used as a tobacco alternative
1aD TIL that upon seeing a picture of Yoko Ono’s great-grandfather John Lennon remarked, “That’s me in a former life.” To which Ono replied “Don’t say that… He was assassinated.”