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TIL that to get the pear or apple into a bottle of brandy, they place the empty bottles over the budding fruit at the start of the season, and allow it to grow into the bottle all summer.

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R5gY6 TIL people with ALS or Lou Gehrig disease are disproportionately nice and pleasant, in addition to slowly losing all motor function, with makes doctors think it may also affect the frontal lobe.
6O77 TIL that a man served 31 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, and the state compensated him only $75.
v6K7 TIL twice a year the sun rises/sets perfectly in line with the NYC grid. It’s called Manhattanhenge and it’s happening today
VA4D TIL the historian Iris Chang, whose book “The Rape of Nanking” reached the New York Times Best Seller list when she was only 29 years old, was deep into research for her fourth book about the Bataan Death March, had a break with reality, and killed herself
xX5k TIL Philip of Macedon sent a message to Sparta saying, “You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army on your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people and raze your city.” Sparta replied “If”. Neither Philip nor Alexander the Great ever attacked Sparta