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TIL That Vanilla beans are the product of the world's only fruit-producing orchid, the Vanilla planifolia

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b9pV9 TIL of Joseph Trombino, Brinks truck driver, who narrowly survived an armed robbery in 1983 and the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, only to be killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
pV8A TIL the shape of an animal’s eye tells whether it’s hunter or prey - sheep have horizontal pupils so they can better see predators while grazing
j0Qv TIL that in 2015, the authorities of the Westfjords region of Iceland have repealed a 400-year-old law that dictated that any Basque people found in the region could be legally killed on the spot
8aPxa TIL of Andre Geim, the only person to win both a Nobel Prize for graphene, and an Ig Nobel Prize for levitating a frog.
ELRd TIL despite the ongoing Arab Boycott of Israel since 1948, Israel has achieved a higher GDP than all of the participants except for the oil rich Kuwait and Qatar, and the participants stand to lose $30 billion from not trading with Israel by 2020.