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TIL that Peanuts actually grow underground and not above like other legumes

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Yp4Jv TIL In December 1944, US soldier Richard Brookins dressed up as St. Nicolas to hand out gifts to the children of Wiltz, Luxembourg. Though 80% of Wiltz was destroyed soon after, the event is celebrated each year with a 40s "GI" dressed as St. Nick. Brookins passed in 2018, having visited many times.
awZE9 TIL in 1994, Russian Premier Boris Yeltsin escaped from the Presedential Guest House in Washington, and was found by the CIA in his underpants, drunk, yelling for a taxi so he could get pizza.
d8j9E TIL that the distance from the top of Africa to the bottom (5000 miles) is the same distance as London to Beijing, China (5055 miles). Senegal in west Africa is closer to Jamaica across the Atlantic than Somalia in east Africa.
yV9KM TIL a study found that a petri dish exposed to public bathroom air for two minutes with the hand dryers off only grew one colony of bacteria, or none at all, whereas petri dishes exposed to the hot air from a hand dryer for 30 seconds grew up to 254 colonies of bacteria.
awmK9 TIL about the Arbëreshë people, an ethnic albanian minority in Italy who came escaping the Ottoman conquest of Albania between 700 and 300 years ago