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TIL carrots weren’t orange originally. Orange carrots were cultivated by Dutch farmers in the 17th century as a tribute to their king William of Orange

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loPm5 TIL that Kendrick Lamar's DAMN is the first non classical/jazz musical work to win the Pulitzer Music Prize. The awards began in 1943.
9DMM TIL that the real reason the ocean is salty is because the entire volume of the ocean is going inside the earth into magma chambers and out, every 6-8 million years, where it exchanges minerals it got from rivers, and we did not know this until 1979.
ap7N TIL studies have unsuccessfully tried to kill dogs by overdosing on marijuana.
4XEDX TIL That the Church of Satan will not grant membership to minors, (so any teenager claiming to be a card-carrying Satanist is lying.)
XYOR TIL In 1953 US and UK overthrow first Iranian democratic government because Iran wanted to nationalize the petroleum reserves.