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TIL that apples are originally from Kazakhstan.

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OoLA1 TIL the US Senate has a desk called the Candy Desk, it has a drawer full of candy and the responsibility of the occupant is to distribute these to other members of the floor
EMDo TIL that A black, Nigerian couple living in the U.K. gave birth to a white, blonde, blue-eyed baby that they call the “miracle baby.”
D15oY TIL Burger King filed an official complaint against the movie “It” and tried to get it banned from theaters, claiming unlawful free advertising for McDonald’s since Pennywise is “an exact replica” of Ronald McDonald, thus promoting the rival restaurant.
y88a TIL that Wimbledon finalist Andy Murray is a survivor of the Dunblane school massacre where 17 adults and children were killed and that his mother gave the killer lifts in her car.
P1mbO TIL that the remains at the archaeological site of the oldest known wooden-built structure (think log cabin style) are thought to be from 476,000 years ago. Kalambo Structure, Kalambo Falls, Lake Tanganyika, southeast Africa.