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TIL that the pomelo, the largest citrus fruit, is an ancestor of several cultivated citrus species, including the bitter orange and the grapefruit.

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yQVmp TIL that isolating a female cannabis plant from a male, can increase production of buds (richest THC source) as the female increases her efforts to attract pollen from the male plant.
J1QMB TIL that Indigenous people reclaimed the island of Alcatraz for 19 months.
G4JG TIL that in 1873 a war broke out between Republicans and Democrats after both sides claimed they won the state election for Governor. Louisiana Democrats formed a “shadow” government, their own paramilitary force called the White League, and massacred more than 150 African Americans.
wLkeY TIL that WWII ended 5 weeks before a planned Japanese biological attack on San Diego involving plague infected fleas. The idea was developed at Unit 731 which conducted extensive human experimentation, mostly on Chinese prisoners.
VMwdk TIL that in 2014, Sony released a cassette tape with storage capacity of 185 Tera-Bytes. That means the tape could contain over 64 million songs, or the storage on 11 thousand iPhones.