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TIL Pinecones are a type of fruit

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yV7pl TIL The fastest 60m sprint in human history is by a 5 ft 8 in Chinese guy named Su Bingtian at 6.29 seconds (Usain Bolt's record is 6.31 seconds)
rN78W TIL in the 1970s Playboy published nude photos of a 10-year old Brooke Shields in one of their publications. Brooke tried to take the photographer to court but they deemed the photos were “Art”.
ZpMyQ TIL that the quasar 3C 273 is so incredibly bright that if it were 36 lightyears away it would appear brighter than the sun in our sky, and is 4 trillion times brighter than our star.
GB8Q TIL That the half-shaven-long-braid Chinese hairstyle was a sign of submission to their Manchurian rulers
RZV8 TIL of a monk who had taken an old book written by Archimedes, erased the contents, and wrote over it with prayers. Scientists have determined that that monk erased a previously unknown book by Archimedes, that laid out the foundations of Calculus thousands of years before Newton and Leibniz.