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TIL Pecans are a type of hickory.

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v1pn7 TIL Karen is a man’s name outside of Germanic-based languages
waLo TIL not only did Flint, MI keep quiet about their toxic lead pipes leeching into the water but also the deadly Legionnaires’ disease that quickly spread after putting in different pipes
vPdK8 TIL that since 2001 there has been "Palm Dog" prize awarded at Cannes every other year for best canine performance
R5gr8 TIL about the dispute over Jewish assets in dormant Swiss bank accounts in the 1990s turned into Switzerland’s biggest foreign policy crisis since the Second World War. On August 12, 1998, a billion-dollar settlement was reached.
6Ev7l TIL about "The Radium Girls", female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. The women, told the paint was harmless, ingested deadly amounts of radium after being instructed to "point" their brushes between their lips for a fine point.