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TIL cashew nuts grow on the bottom of cashew apples.

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OoKK7 TIL that in 1923 the USPS instituted a requirement that all delivery addresses feature a mail-box or drop-slot to reduce the time that mail carriers waited at each door.
p8j5O TIL that the oldest dingo fossils in Australia are about 4,000 years old, so dingoes’ ancestors must have reached Australia by boat. Whole-genome studies consistently place dingoes between wolves and wolflike dog breeds.
GAW4N TIL That The Royal Guardsmen, the band that sang “Snoopy vs. The Red Baron”, released a similar song, “Snoopy vs. Osama” in 2006.
5Yk09 TIL Mexico issued a ban known as "Avandarazo" in response to the Festival de Avándaro, forbidding the recording of Rock music by national groups, the prohibition of its sales in retail stores, live rock concerts and airplay of rock songs. The ban lasted for many years, gradually lifted in the 1980s.
9wgam TIL the color chartreuse is named after Chartreuse liqueur, which is named after the Grande Chartreuse monastery, which is named after the Chartreuse mountains, which is named after the village formerly known as Chartrousse.