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TIL Nectarines are just mutant peaches

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aw94J TIL that Alan Moore, the author behind Batman: The Killing Joke, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman and Watchmen became a ceremonial magician on his 40th birthday, believing it to be "a logical end step to my career as a writer."
epPML TIL that on March 2008, a group of emo teens battled a group of punk teens in Mexico City until the Hare Krishna intervened an calmed everyone down
Megnm TIL The English language used to have six more letters: thorn (þ), eth (ð), wynn (ƿ), yogh (ȝ), ash (æ), and ethel (œ). They all disappeared by the 15th century.
DQL7e TIL electric cars existed before gasoline cars, with early electric vehicles on the road decades before the first internal combustion-powered cars were even invented.
xMNk TIL that Harrison Ford’s children’s ages range from 14 to 48 years old.