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TIL “Fruit salad trees” can sprout 3 to 7 different fruits…on THE SAME tree.

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neLlo TIL Mikhail Gorbachev was unable to be present on the occasion of his award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, 1990 but had his First Deputy Foreign Minister speak instead. His speech emphasized perestroika for USSR and mankind
V1mQ TIL - there is a secret room in The Simpsons home that is rarely seen. The Rumpus Room
e0RD5 TIL the mile is based off a bunch of Roman guys deciding to take a thousand paces and call that a mile
x4Q7 TIL that the “Where’s the beef?” Wendy’s advertising campaign of 1984 ended in 1985 when the actress performed in a commercial for Prego pasta sauce, saying that she “finally found” the beef.
lBdK TIL 500,00 Americans faced a low-tech Y2K when they pre-ordered headstones with “19-” inscribed for their death date, then lived past the year 2000.