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TIL pistachios are not nuts? They look like them but they were not botanically classified as such.

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QJGGL TIL In Canada there is a prisoner known as "the Unknown Person" who has been imprisoned since 2013 because he refuses to identify himself.
EgKxP TIL a 22-year-old high school JV girls basketball coach in Virginia lost her job after she played in a game by posing as a 13-year-old on the team who was out of town. Upon being reported, the team forfeited the game and the players (both JV & varsity) voted to cancel the rest of their seasons.
xVjZB TIL: The first known instance of the classic "twirly mustached villan tying a woman the railroad tracks" occurred in 1867 and it was actually a man tied to the train tracks being saved by a woman.
ne57o TIL that the annual Exxon safety calendar featured the Exxon Valdez for the month of March in 1989. On March 24th, 1989, the Valdez ran aground - the most devastating environmental oil spill in history.
ewPk TIL Python, the programming language, was named after Monty Python’s Flying Circus.