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TIL most coconuts in Thailand are harvested by trained monkeys

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M74pb TIL the invasive plant Kudzu spreads 150,000 acres annually in the Southern US. It can even now be seen in New York. Kudzu damages and kills plants by smothering them under a blanket of leaves. It has become one of the greatest environmental concerns for parks today.
VNam TIL Nicolas Cage will be buried in a pyramid.
yVPO8 TIL Mark Twain never completed his novel The Mysterious Stranger but it was published after his death. The 1916 Paine-Duneka edition was multiple stories spliced together that the editors patched together with their own writings. The original manuscripts were published in 1963.
0d8eL TIL that since its discovery Pluto has not made a full orbit around the sun, and still has 150 years until it does
loXmr TIL amazing footage of a patient undergoing open heart surgery with acupuncture as pain relief, fails to show that the patient also had 3 very powerful sedatives (midazolam, droperidol, fentanyl) and lots of local anaesthetic injected into the chest.