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TIL that pineapples don’t grow on trees but sprout from the ground.

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l7vA5 TIL that Magnus Carlsen intentionally plays non-book "inaccuracies" during opening (moves he knows aren't the best), in order to force the game into a non-book position, so his opponents will have to think for themselves instead of going by memorized opening theory.
x6LRo TIL that a Formula 1 car can brake from 100 mph to 0 faster than it can accelerate from 0 to 100 mph.
wLy7Y TIL The German word "Hamsterkäufe" is a behaviour, where people accumulate food and supplies to prepare for shortages, thus often creating the shortages in the first place.
R59ba TIL about the Diprotodon – the largest marsupial ever. It weighed up to 3,500 kg (close to an Asian elephant), looked like some capybara on steroids and was likely driven to extinction by humans some 40,000 years ago
9w6gQ TIL that NASA built an elaborate escape route and bunker for Apollo engineers working on the launchpad, which had to take dozens of factors into account to withstand the absolutely massive explosion that would occur if the Saturn V exploded on the launchpad.