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TIL a farmer in China grows Buddha shaped pears.

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rRNGM Frozen in time, Franz Josef Land is one of the last lingering remnants of the truly wild Arctic. The remote and nearly uninhabited 192-island archipelago is renowned for its biodiversity, which includes polar bears, walruses, bowhead whales, belugas, and narwhals. The intensifying impact of climate change, however, nearly turned this serene environment deadly for National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala and his crew.
8agp8 TIL That spicy foods are spicy because they trigger certain cells inside the tongue that are the same type of cell that detect extreme heat, and it has nothing to do with taste.
GY0N5 TIL Jesse Owens set 5 world records in 45 minutes at the Olympics
8e0PG TIL that not only has it been more than fifty years since a person last set foot on the moon, the entire period of crewed missions to the lunar surface only lasted three and a half years.
4X4Do TIL Chuck E. Cheese’s full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese, and he’s an orphan. He never knew when his birthday was, that’s why he celebrates other kid’s birthdays.