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TIL Apples, potatoes, and other produce can be and are often stored for up to a year before they are shipped to stores.

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pYjPb TIL Dale Earnhardt, who was active with the Make a Wish Foundation, granted the wish of a girl who wanted to give him a penny for good luck in the Daytona 500. He glued the penny to his dashboard and won the race.
R5jx9 TIL that the "Killing baby Hitler" is a thought experiment in ethics and theoretical physics which poses the question of using time travel to assassinate an infant Adolf Hitler.
ZEvQ TIL that some Russian bears are addicted to sniffing Jet Fuel out of empty fuel barrels. They like getting high so much, they stalk helicopters for the drops of fuel that leaks onto the soil.
ZDNp TIL that there is a Japanese family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1300 years.
XEw1P TIL that during the Vietnam War, America made a recording that has terrifying sounds, then played those sounds in the jungle at night.