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TIL the blackberry plants growing all over Seattle and the West Coast are all the fault of gardening fanatic Luther Burbank

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XEpv8 TIL Hungary sent 346 men to help the Finns in the Winter War against the Soviets, but after the long and complicated journey, the Moscow Peace Treaty was signed before they saw combat.
a46J TIL that before the dominance of HTML on the web, a protocol called GOPHER existed. Despite its linear navigation, lack of an hyperlink function, not having images, and the current lack of support from the main browsers, gopher:// sites such as Twitpher exist in a parallel, bizarre text driven web.
QJk8L TIL that the anus of a scorpion is located right below their stinger, and if they lose their tail they can die of not defecating.
b9koN TIL that to avoid the censure of his father, a railroad worker who disapproved of poets, the teenage writer Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto wrote and published poetry under a pseudonym: Pablo Neruda. He would later legally adopt the name and go on to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
EPro TIL Taking cold showers can help you lose weight.