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TIL: Freekeh is the same grain as Durum Wheat—the kind used for pasta flour—but harvested when it's green before being processed

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rYj1 TIL It is impossible to pass gas silently if you remove the hair around your anus.
Q61d TIL that The parliament of Iceland, established in 930, is the oldest active parliament in the world.
Lkp00 TIL of the Taman Shud case: a mysterious unidentified corpse of a man found on the beach in Australia in 1948, cleanly shaven with no identification marks but a piece of paper with the words “Tamam Shud,” meaning the end.
9YBaG TIL of a city in the U.S. called George, Washington. The name was chosen by Charlie Brown, a local pharmacist, to honour the first U.S. president.
MExA TIL: that Strawberry generation is a Chinese term for anyone who is born after 1981. Named after strawberries because strawberries “bruise easily”, they can not withstand social pressure or work hard like their parents’ generation.