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TIL - That avocado seeds are so large because they depended on extinct megafauna to eat and disperse them.

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8PbG TIL that an Indian airline only hires women because they are lighter, so they save up to $500,000 per year in fuel
VMROZ TIL: Tom Cruise is obsessed with sending his co-stars cakes, even ones he worked with decades ago. Louis Theroux, documentary maker, even went to his grandmother's 100th Birthday Party to find 100 cupcakes from Tom Cruise, after Tom worked with his cousin.
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VMAY4 TIL in 2004 Morse code got its first update in 60 years, with the addition of the symbol "@". The new code takes twice as long as spelling out the word "at".