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TIL: The reason Onions make you cry is because of a defense mechanism they have evolved against predatory animals which would otherwise eat them

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d8GlK TIL that the largest pumpkin ever grown in the US state of Massachusetts was in 2020, by Charles M. Lieber, a Harvard chemist convicted of not disclosing ties to the Chinese government, as well as not reporting associated income from this work
neAVG TIL In search for a new mathematical model to replace the decimal system, Gottfried Wilhelm von Liebniz read a 3000 year old Chinese book “I Ching”. Fascinated by the simplicity of Yin and Yang, Liebniz used this philosophy to create the binary number system.
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x6pnD TIL that in the original Grease musical, Sandy was not Australian. When she was cast, Olivia Newton-John agreed to be paid at a lower rate in exchange for rewriting the script to make Sandy Australian so she wouldn't need to do an American accent.
M7BjV TIL about the 1937 marriage of 22-year-old Charlie Johns and 9-year-old Eunice Winstead, causing national attention after an article was written in Life magazine. It led to the state of Tennessee introducing a new law setting the minimum marriage age as 14. Other US jurisdictions followed similarly.