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TIL strawberries are the only fruit that do not continue to ripen after they are picked.

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bJVp TIL, On August 4th, 1985 at the intersection of I-40 and U.S.69, a car and semitrailer carrying military bombs collided. The results were a series of explosions that lead to the deaths of 47 people and the evacuation of 6000 residents of Checotah, OK.
b6evQ TIL there is a 1/25th scale version of the Suez Canal in a French lake to train ship captains.
b9n57 TIL the Gretzky brothers hold the NHL record for most combined points by two brothers (2,857 for Wayne and 4 for Brent)
wME8 TIL in 2005 a glitch in World of Warcraft allowed a plague to spread in the game leading non-infected players to abandon cities while those infected were forced into quarantines. It was later studied by epidemiologists to see how real life people would react to a pandemic.
1arKD TIL that Tyler Dooley, Meghan Markle's nephew, grows marijuana in Oregon and he created a special blend called "Meghan Sparkle" to celebrate her getting married to Prince Harry