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TIL pine nuts come from pine cones
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TIL about Andy Hartley Payne, who was the winner of the International Trans-Continental Footrace in 1928 to promote U.S. Route 66. He ran the 3,423.5 mi route from Los Angeles to New York City, much of it along U.S. Route 66, in 573 hours, 4 minutes, 34 seconds over an 84-day staged run.
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TIL that even though a Giant Panda’s diet consists of 99% bamboo shoots, it is technically a carnivore.
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TIL that an Australian company developed a 22-karat gold toilet paper with a sale price of $1.3 million per roll.
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TIL humans aren’t appropriate prey for great white sharks because their digestion is too slow to cope with the high ratio of bone to muscle and fat.
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TIL that most airlines never use a flight number again if that flight has a fatal crash, except for American Airlines, which keeps using flight #1 despite three major crashes.