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TIL that oats and rye were weeds that evolved to imitate wheat and barley to confuse farmers, and only later were farmed on purpose

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1amlD TIL that at the age of 31, Charlie Munger was broke, divorced, and had just buried his 9-year-old son who died from leukemia. Today, Munger is Warren Buffet's "right-hand man," a billionaire and says "Self-pity is not going to improve the situation...however bad it is, just fix it as best you can."
7rrvb TIL of the 17-yr-old girl who fell 10,000ft out of a plane without a parachute and survived 10 days in the Peruvian jungle.
P5rJ TIL Marvel Comics created a superhero, Blue Ear, just for a 4 year old boy who was uncomfortable wearing his prescribed hearing aids. The boy told his mom “Superheroes don’t wear hearing aids” so Marvel created one.
PBxE TIL AT&T secretly sells customer data to law enforcement and keeps information like call time, duration, and even location data on file for years.
a8jpJ TIL when a pope dies, the cardinal camerlengo confirms the death by gently tapping the pope's head thrice with a silver hammer, calling his birth name each time. He then retrieves the Ring of the Fisherman and cuts it in two. The pope's seals are defaced, and his personal apartment is sealed.