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TIL pineapples grow in bushes, not on trees.

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kJwAe TIL about Western Sahara, the last African colony without its independence. After the U.N. pressured Spain to give the colony up in the 1970s they agreed to joint governance with two neighboring countries, only to trigger an uprising by the region's residents. The government is still disputed today.
grZ5W TIL Jon Stewart interviewed George Lucus and asked where Obi Wan was from. George said StewJon playing off of jons name. It's now cannon.
oPJK TIL John Lithgow played the William Shatner role in the Twilight Zone remake of “Nightmare at 20,000 feet.” Years later when Shatner appears on 3rd Rock from the sun he says “It was a horrible flight! There was a man on the wing of the plane!”; Lithgow responds, “The same thing happened to me!”
nXkb TIL the total number of energy used to mine Bitcoins daily is massive, with 982 megawatt hours a day, that’s enough to power roughly 31,000 U.S. homes, or about half a Large Hadron Collider.
W7GmN TIL Louis Eppolito, who played Fat Andy in ‘Goodfellas’ and a detective in ‘Lost Highway’ among other roles, was an NYPD detective who led a double life as an associate of the Five Families