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TIL that pine cones have genders.

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7RKx TIL the last allowed visit to the Fort Knox gold vault, by members of the US Congress and some journalists was on 23 September 1974.
5yw8 TIL During the filming of the Wolf of Wall Street, Jonah Hill took revenge on Leonardo DiCaprio by giving him food poisoning. By improvising a line, Hill made DiCaprio eat the last piece of raw yellowtail sushi. DiCaprio had to repeat this 70 times. Only Hill and Martin Scorsese found it funny.
N7rE6 TIL that 90% of "dead" cell phone batteries returned to the manufacturer are repaired and resold.
VB5Np TIL Cass Elliot of The Mamas & the Papas had to overcome another band member's concerns that her voice was too low for his arrangements and that her obesity would hurt the band's success.
JYAm4 TIL that relative to other animals humans are born prematurely and thus can be "socialized to a far greater extent than any other animal". Human babies are highly dependent for YEARS on adults (vs. e.g., kitten leaving mother weeks after birth) and thus can be taught/nurtured for better or worse.