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TIL Swisscoy is a Swiss Armed Forces unit with up to 195 troops, deployed in Kosovo as part of NATO's KFOR peacekeeping force. Peace support is a key task of the Swiss military, anchored in law.

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XExWR TIL that Avenal, a small town of around 15,000 people in California's agriculturally prolific central valley, is the pistachio capital of the world.
dn88 TIL that Stanley Kubrick had shown an interest in directing a porn, but then concluded that he did not have the patience or temperament to become involved in the porn industry
oRrKA TIL about the Tree of 40 Fruit, where multiple 'donor' branches are grafted together so that a single tree produces dozens of fruits such as apricots, cherries and plums
Yp0j7 TIL Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors
dDLnQ TIL about the last knight, and his stand against NAZIs.