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TIL the Macadamia nut has the toughest shell of any nut in the world, requiring 300 pounds per square inch to crack.

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d84gB TIL Barbie's original design was based on a German cartoon character named Lilli who was a saucy high-end escort. Lilli dolls were marketed to men who gave them as a gag gift at bachelor parties, dangled them from the rearview mirror, or gave them to girlfriends as a suggestive keepsake.
xVodB TIL in the 1930s the Soviet Union attempted to domesticate wild moose. They believed moose might fare better in deep snow than horse cavalry so they began a breeding program. Though they never became cavalry animals, one of the breeding facilities, Kostroma Moose Farm, is still up and running.
696Em TIL the planet Neptune isn't deep blue, and looks closer in color to Uranus; the correct shades of the planets have been confirmed in a study published in September 2023
R5rrw TIL that in the 1880s, the Cape Town-Port Elizabeth railway service formally employed a baboon as an assistant railway signalman for 9 years. He was paid 20 cents per day and half a bottle of beer per week.
6KWZ TIL - Leopold II of Belgium is responsible for an estimated 10 million deaths in Congo. Also, he was so notorious for mutilation that the left hand was removed from his statue.