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TIL 70 percent of the world’s Macadamia Nuts came from one tree in Australia. All of Hawaii’s macadamias share distinctive markers with a tiny wild grouping of trees in Gympie, suggesting that all of the state’s modern crops were likely cloned out of a single Australian tree.

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MrWV TIL that the first joke Bob Saget ever told onstage was “I have the brain of a German Shepherd and the body of a 16-year-old boy; they’re both in my car and I want you to see them”
4XBP6 TIL about Celia Blay, a 65-year old woman who caught a murderer over the internet. A man had been posing as a female nurse online, trying to convince people to commit suicide. At least five people did. Blay gathered enough evidence to prove it was one man, eventually leading to his capture.
E1AGV TIL that after inventing the lie detector, William Moulton Marston was asked to create and develop a superhero for DC Comics. At his wife's insistence that the superhero be female, Marston created Wonder Woman.
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rNANW TIL: Lord Minimus was a court Jester to Queen Henrietta Maria. At age 6, he hid in a 18" pie and busted out, entertaining the Queen so much, he was kept as a gift. Over the years, he didn't want to be a pet clown anymore. He dueled a royal who brought a squirt gun, killed him, and was then enslaved.