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TIL cashew nuts grow on the bottom of cashew apples.

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p8BQO TIL in 1992 financier Thomas H. Lee purchased Snapple from its founders for $140 million. Two years later he sold it to Quaker Oats for $1.7 billion. Less than 3 years later, after investing additional hundreds of millions on the brand, Quaker sold it for $300 million.
PYLxV TIL: Actor Dick Van Dike didn't know his actual birthday until he was 18. His parents lied to him about his birth date to cover up the fact that he was conceived out of wedlock.
v9a8 TIL Robert Kennedy was assassinated during the exact same week that the Rolling Stones were recording ‘Sympathy for the Devil.’ The original lyrics were “I shouted out 'Who killed Kennedy?’” but Jagger changed it to “I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys?’”
rP4w TIL the US presidential veto has a 96% success rate. Of 2574 vetoes Congress has only overturned 111.
obXK TIL the Empire State Building used to have an entire floor dedicated to napping.