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TIL pine nuts come from pine cones

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a80M Til that “Raffi,” beloved childrens singer/musician turned down an offer to play Madison Square Garden because he was afraid the venue was too large to connect with the children in the audience.
0dJPL TIL INTERLINGUA is an auxiliary language that every Romance language (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Romanian) speaker can easily understand without ever studying, thanks to these languages' common Latin roots.
1Nr4 TIL Ikea used East German political prisoners as slave labor
Menl0 TIL of the "Brown Ocean Effect", wherein tropical cyclones maintain their strength of even intensify after making landfall. Tropical Storm Erin (2007) and Bill (2015) both exhibited characteristics of this phenomenon.
d8N1r TIL the world's longest sausage was 39 miles long. It was made in a tent in a Romanian parking lot.