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TIL - Limes turn Yellow when fully ripe, but turn bitter so we eat them unripe when still Green

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ladB TIL that when hermit crabs encounter a new shell that is too big for them, they will wait around to see if another crab shows up to take it. They form groups of up to 20, holding onto each other in order from largest to smallest, each waiting to get into a larger shell that fits them.
78ZYb TIL The first international sporting event of the modern era was a cricket match between the Dominion of Canada and the United States in 1844 (this pre-dated the modern Olympics by ~50 years)
Op8a TIL Muhammad Ali once spoke at a KKK rally where he stated that Nation Of Islam, and he himself, also shared their ideals on racial segregation
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