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TIL In 1871, Judge R.B. Orb introduced avocados to California, which now accounts for 90% of avocado production.

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yxnV TIL the Russians had a flying aircraft carrier that actually worked and deployed aircraft from the “mother-ship” that successfully engaged their targets
b6kO4 TIL the transistor was patented 21 years before a working one was actually created.
9w1b7 TIL about the Xi'an Stele. A Chinese-Christian artifact that documents the rise of christianity in china in the VII century
6EyLX TIL that Orson Welles once met Hitler, but Welles was unimpressed and thought the Nazi Party had no chance of winning
69yk7 TIL Theodore Roosevelt was shot during a speech and kept talking for 84 minutes. He got shot in the chest, but because he had a thick speech manuscript in his pocket, the bullet was slowed. He refused medical attention, continued his speech, and said, "It takes more than that to kill a bull moose."