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TIL that apples are originally from Kazakhstan.

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gQXX TIL that cockroaches’ exoskeletons allow them to withstand weights up to 900 times their body weight
PQ8g TIL that NASA engineers once asked Sally Ride if 100 tampons was enough for a 7 day mission
BrBoK TIL there is a tree in Athens, Georgia that is thought to have legal ownership of itself.
Jbmj TIL Hitler’s sister-in-law, Bridget Hitler, said she was responsible for Hitler’s signature mustache. She wrote in her memoirs that she could not stand his unruly mustache, so he cut it, but that in doing so, “as in most things, he went too far.”
7rQEO TIL in 1493, it is speculated that King James of Scotland sent two newborns to live in isolation with a deaf, mute woman to see what language they would speak. The King supposedly reported that the children grew up speaking Hebrew.