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TIL that Supermarket apples can be a year old

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9wLB TIL only 6 people attended Thomas Paine’s funeral, one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S. because of his ridicule of Christianity.
NblE TIL Henrietta Leavitt discovered how to measure astronomical distances to stars and nebula (now known to be other galaxies). Her research allowed her employer, Edwin Hubble to later discover the expanding universe. He often stated she deserved a Nobel Prize for her work.
6Xo8 TIL that One can crack an apple in half with nothing but bare hands
x67L0 TIL when Charles Darwin was sent some flowers from a friend he noticed one flower was extremely long and bet some moth with really long mouth parts exists to pollinate it. A few years later that moth was discovered.
j6enQ TIL A fossilized os penis of a walrus measured 4.5 feet long. Biblical scholars in 2015 argued it was the penis bone, not a rib, God removed from man to form Eve.