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TIL pineapples take two to three years to grow.

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mxQYE TIL that the former Secretary General of the UN and later President of Austria, Kurt Waldheim, was an accused Nazi who as President was put on a Watch List by the US as an 'potential undesirable'
x6MNw TIL the Royal Navy captured a Brazilian slave ship in 1827, renamed her after an old English folk song, (that also happened to be the name of an English slave ship in the 1700s), and assigned it to fight against the slave trade.
168Z7 TIL Swallow nests have been used as a delicacy for over 400 years, and are among the most expensive animal products consumed by humans
e6ek TIL An Indian man named Dashrath Manjhi carved a 360 foot long path through a mountain over the course of 22 years to reduce the distance between his village and the hospital down from 70km to 1km, to ensure no one would die like his wife did because they could not get medical care.
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