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TIL Cashew nuts grow out of a “strange apple”

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awNM TIL that Royal Navy Able Seacat, Simon (a real cat), was awarded medals for raising morale and killing rats aboard a navy ship
YpvRZ TIL Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH) is a protein derived from the blood of Megathura crenulata limpets and is critical for making medicines. KLH cannot be synthetically made, making the mollusks' serum worth $100,000 per liter.
ogpW TIL that women are responsible for 90% of modern language changes, with teenage girls historically having been the linguistic innovators
7ARp TIL that the deepest Freedive (no air and no fins) is 106 metres deep, which is 66 metres deeper than the maximum allowed depth for recreational scubadiving (with air).
Med8A TIL cult leader Jim jones was once a civil rights leader