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TIL pineapples grow in bushes, not on trees.

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n5lb TIL a young farmer in India has broken the world record rice harvest by 3 tonnes per hectare using only organic methods.
d8A7 TIL that Leonard Cohen wrote over 80 verses for his widely-coverd song “Hallelujah.” The version recorded by former Velvet Underground member John Cale, the first of over 100 recorded covers and the basis for the iconic Jeff Buckley rendition, was made from 15 pages of lyrics faxed to him by Cohen.
W0bL TIL that Wladimir Klitschko auctioned off his 1996 Olympic gold medal in March 2012 for charity. The buyer payed $1 million but immediatly returned it because he wanted it to stay in the family.
EkJ0 TIL the female equivalent to the word “phallic” is “yonic.”
R7o94 TIL that in 1915, surrounded and faced with imminent defeat, the entire Serbian army and government, numbering 400,000 (~10% of the population), retreated through Albania to the sea and evacuated to Greece. Half of them died on the march, but the rest came back in 1917 to liberate their country.