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TIL Some Greenland sharks alive today were born before the English Civil war.

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PgNG TIL: Cashews are also a fruit, and there is only a single nut per fruit. Apparently the Cashew apple is really tasty.
woEEY TIL the 1600 Huaynaputina eruption was the largest ever recorded in South America. Its profound impact on Earth's climate led to the worst famine of Russian history, as well as floods, cold waves, and famines worldwide. It might even have contributed to the onset of the Little Ice Age
x6LxB TIL on 1993, at 17, David Hahn, a young teenage nuclear radiation enthusiast, managed to create a neutron source in order to build a breeder reactor in his mother's backyard
4Xwja TIL that several former Nazis, including Adolf Heusinger, who served as acting Chief of Staff of the Army for Nazi Germany, and Johannes Steinhoff, who was one of the highest scoring Luftwaffe pilots, took high level positions within NATO after World War II.
YkNZ TIL the UK’s military satellite family is called Skynet.