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TIL There is a fruit by the name of Black Sapote or “chocolate pudding fruit” which tastes like chocolate pudding and is actually low fat and has about “4 times as much vitamin C as an orange”.

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9oGG TIL that the “bubonic plague” was a specific way of dying from the plague wherein lymph nodes would swell into lumps called “bubos.” This is also the origin of bruises being called “boo-boos.”
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mYWy TIL Vice-President Andrew Johnson took his presidential oath while drunk. “Glassy-eyed and smelling of whiskey, he reminded […] pretty much everyone within hearing distance that they owed their positions to ‘plebeians’ such as himself, then kissed the Bible and staggered away”.