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TIL Blue is the world’s most popular colour

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awv1J TIL while "Sweet Potato" and "Yam" are used interchangeably in the west, the two foods actually belong to entirely different plant families. Potatoes grow underground and are thought to have originated in Central/South America while Yams grow on a tropical vine and originated in Africa.
69oV8 TIL Craig Mazin, who wrote such comedy movies as Scary Movie 3 and The Hangover Part II, later went on to co-create Chernobyl and The Last of Us.
yl1p TIL: That the italian firearm manufacturer, Beretta. Creator of the iconic M9 Beretta, is the oldest active firearm manufacturer in the world, founded in 1526.
aVZZ TIL Dr. Bernice Eddy warned the NIH that the polio vaccines they were about to release contained live polio virus. They ignored her and released the vaccine anyway, and as a result 40,000 children developed polio. The NIH director who dismissed Dr. Eddy then resigned.
6EKxm TIL about the bristol stool chart. A 7 pronged classification system for poop developed by Dr KW Heaton in 1997, formerly Reader in Medicine at the University of Bristol.