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TIL of "fruit walls". Used before greenhouses, fruit walls stored the heat from the sun and released it at night which created a microclimate that could increase the surrounding temperature by more than 10°C (18°F).

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dp49 TIL of Black Jack, the riderless horse who participated in over 1,000 Full Honors US Military Funerals, including JFK’s. He is one of two horses to be buried with Full Military Honors himself, the other being Comanche, General Custer’s horse.
X1Gk TIL that if space is truly infinite, then probability dictates that there is an exact copy of you in the universe within 10 to the 10^28 meters of you, due to the finite possible arrangements of matter.
xV0A0 TIL in 1970 Nike offered Spencer Haywood either $100,000 or 10 percent of the company in exchange for promoting the company’s shoes. He chose the 100k over the stock that would be worth $8.6 billion today
R7njQ TIL the Jabba The Hutt puppet was 2,000 lbs, took 3 months to build, 3 men to operate and cost half a million dollars to construct.
VMk0p TIL that baristas at the CIA Starbucks do not write down customers names on their cups and there are no frequent-customer award cards