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TIL that a Pineapple is actually a bunch of small berries fused together into a single mass

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R50Lj TIL that the extreme lifelong behavioral problems of Nancy Spungen (gf of Sid Vicious from the Sex Pistols) are thought to be caused by brain damage via birth asphyxia from umbilical cord wrapped around her neck
Wgv8 TIL there are companies that make foil kites which can be fitted to cargo ships to significantly reduce fuel consumption by using high altitude winds as an alternate power source.
Lk1lQ TIL James Earl Ray, the man who killed Martin Luther King, escaped from prision in 1967 and went to Mexico, where he attempted to establish himself as a pornographic film director.(paragraph 6)
l7xQB TIL that Napoleon was an ethnically Italian and was above average in height for his time.
E1nbV TIL Rosa Parks didn't actually refuse to sit in the back of the bus. She was sitting in the back of the bus but refused to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled.