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TIL the white gooey meat inside the coconut is called the endosperm

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aV5o TIL That diamonds were not originally mined, They were actually found alongside or at the bottom of rivers in India.
gMRQ7 TIL Airbrush illustrations require you to cut out little pieces of film, or "frisket", with an X-acto knife and put them back for every area you want to color. I now appreciate Photoshop that much more.
GYa74 Today I learned that Penn & Teller first performed together 45 years ago at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, sometimes with a third performer, billed as "The Asparagus Valley Cultural Society."
1aM8V TIL On a trip to Congo, an anthropologist played 11 excerpts of Western songs to 40 Pygmies. The emotional cues in songs, which Westerners pick up on, didn't mean the same to the Pygmies: They didn't hear the shrieking strings of the Psycho theme as stressful
pD68 TIL that a newspaper posted a poll asking readers if watching Blackfish – a documentary critical of SeaWorld for keeping orcas captive – changed their opinions of SeaWorld. The results were “No.” It was later revealed that 55% of the votes came from a single IP-address … hosted by SeaWorld