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TIL Hops come from the same genetic family as Marijuana - Cannabaceae

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gMKeL TIL Leigh Mercer, a mathematician and writer, created an equation that, when spoken aloud, was a limerick. "A dozen, a gross, and a score/Plus three times the square root of four/Divided by seven/Plus five times eleven/Is nine squared and not a bit more."
x6Bnb TIL Bill Wyman, bassist for the Rolling Stones was his own son's ex-son-in-law, the father-in-law of his ex-mother-in-law, and the stepgrandfather of his ex-wife
aw1DN TIL about Edward Carter, among the first and only black MOH winners, who got it 50+ years after action, and 30+ after his death.
pYn5Z TIL that adding gallium to aluminum makes it as weak as paper!
DQdEg TIL that when Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was criticized for wearing no. 88 (a code used by nazis), he claimed to not have known about the meaning and had only chosen it because no. 01 had been denied, which he'd wanted due to his admiration for the "Gerneral Lee" from Dukes of Hazard.