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TIL that pine cones have genders.

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BrLar TIL Ara Abrahamian, Greco-Roman wrestler for the Swedes in the 2008 Olympics, lost a semifinal due to a controversial ruling. The refs refused to review match video. Ara calmly accepted the bronze medal, then placed it on the mat and walked off. The IOC gave him a lifetime ban from the Olympics.
Akxl TIL while looking for a lost hammer with a metal detector in 1993, a man in England found the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold ever discovered in Britain. It was worth £1.75m (£2.66m today).
69d68 TIL That there is a tiny island called “Just Room Enough Island” in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence What makes it unique is that the island is so small that it only has enough space for a single house and a tree.
6laZ TIL before R.L. Stine published his award winning children’s book series “Goosebumps” He was contracted to write “Spaceballs: The Book”
xWn0 TIL that James Buchanan, the 15th U.S. President, was morally opposed to slavery, but believed it was protected by the constitution, and so continuously brought slaves with his own money in order to free them