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TIL that to date no woman has run a 4 minute mile

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e0m7k TIL The International Potato Center has successfully grown potatoes in a simulated Mars environment. They grew the plants in a CubeSat which mimicked the Martian air pressure and atmosphere, and used saline desert soils analogous to Martian soils as the growing medium.
OowO1 TIL Decaf Coffee was accidentally discovered when a train car got soaked with sea water which removed the caffeine
v1lgr TIL The approximate Korean word for friend "Chingu" is only used with people of the same age. You can be friendly with older people or younger people, but you will never be friends with people who aren't the same age
woD5o TIL - Trebuchets are actually just a classification of catapult and no definition of catapult specifies how any particular design is meant to store or release potential energy, meaning it's never wrong to call a trebuchet a catapult.
nRXG TIL Double Stuf Oreos are actually made with less than double the creme of a regular Oreo (1.86 times the creme of a regular Oreo)