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TIL: Cashews are also a fruit, and there is only a single nut per fruit. Apparently the Cashew apple is really tasty.

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Br7Nd TIl there is a bank in northen Italy that still accepts parmesan cheese as collatarel for loans, they have a inventory with over 17,000 tons of parmesan, valued over $200 million. Their vaults has been robbed 3 times. The name is Bank Credito Emiliano.
DLXv TIL in 2010, a Canadian man rescued a newborn baby from a dumpster, only to find out he was the father.
b9bj0 TIL that only 2 songs sung by villains have been nominated by the Academy for best song: “Mean Green Mother from Outer Space” from Little Shop of Horrors and “Blame Canada” from the South Park movie. “Mean Green” was also the first with profanity to be nominated.
AYVn TIL Chinese versions of Santa Claus often are depicted as playing a saxophone
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