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TIL Pineapple is not a fruit but collective fruits. A group of fruits combined together

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jNKYR TIL that lesbian couples are two and a half times more likely to get divorced than male same sex couples
VMDAQ TIL the US Justice Department reached a settlement with BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. But the settlement turned out to be tax-deductible, meaning that BP could write off $13+ billion of the penalty.
VBA1D TIL in 2013, Italian surgeons split new residents into two laparoscopic surgery training groups. They found that the group that was ordered to play the Nintendo Wii for 1 hour a day/5days a week performed better on test surgeries than their non-gaming counterparts.
Wkpw9 TIL Brazilian scrap thieves unknowingly stole highly radioactive caesium-137 from a shuttered hospital. The glowing powder was handled, shown to neighbors as a curiosity and even dabbed on faces like makeup. This event resulted in 4 deaths, including a toddler who ingested the powder. [NSFW]
xE8o TIL there is a giant straw goat in Sweden that has been burned down 28 times since 1966