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TIL: There is a edible fruit native to North America that has all but been forgotten and grows in the wild

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9Yj9Q [TIL] that though Finland was allied with Germany during WW2, they refused to expel their native (and immigrant) Jewish population, with those serving in the army taking particular delight in speaking Hebrew around the SS and Wehrmacht in Finland.
9wWB7 TIL of Formula Easter, a Formula One-type racing series created specifically for drivers/constructors from the communist bloc
Q5Oa TIL that NASA funded a project to teach dolphins how to talk which ended in interspecies handjobs and dolphins on LSD
NKvE TIL around 70,000 years ago the volcano Toba in Indonesia erupted and covered the earth with so much ash the sun was dimmed for 6 years. The population of early humans neared extinction and some studies indicate there were as few as 40 breeding pairs.
amL TIL 10% of lobsters coming across a lobster trap will enter; 94% of that 10% escapes. The inefficiency of lobster traps has inadvertently saved lobsters from overfishing.