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TIL that helicopter downwash is used to shake the water off of cherries after rain so they do not swell and split before harvest.

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kO5r5 TIL The mile was originally 5000 feet, until Parliament changed it in 1592 to match up with eight furlongs.
b6Ma9 TIL that in 1996, Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, casually choke-slammed two protesters to the ground at a public event while making his way through a crowd. It is known as the “Shawinigan Handshake.”
xMvB TIL the author of Goodnight Moon left her considerable fortune to a 9-year-old boy, who has squandered nearly all of it.
W704B TIL the origin of the dance routine from Whigfield’s “Saturday Night” are unknown. Once she performed the song and to her bemusement people started doing it. It was not in her music video and she never knew about it.
E6Jw TIL the original Doom outsold the Windows OS. Id was only 12 employees strong at the time.