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TIL that Blue Olives exist. How is it that no one considers these when searching for rare blue fruits? These put blueberries to shame in terms of colour.

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D110Y TIL of Manga Kenkanryu, a Japanese comic series about Japanese young people who form a group critical of Korea, debating a pro-Korea Group, and humiliating them
BgdAK TIL about Prophyrios, a whale that wreaked havoc on ships over a 50 year period in Greece during the middle ages. The Greek king made it an important matter to capture it, though he could not come up with a way to do so.
DQEPp TIL Alan Turing's father was in the Indian Civil Service and his mother was the daughter of the chief engineer of Madras Railways. Alan's parents met and married in India, although he was born in the UK.
eje4 TIL The most popular sport in Ireland (gaelic football) is a completely amateur sport. The players play in front of 80,000 people and don’t get paid.
RRJw TIL that a ship sank in Alaska waters during the gold rush with as much as $260 million in gold aboard that’s never been recovered.