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TIL …that Al Qaeda targets and kills more Muslims than anyone else…

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x6Ldb TIL that a pear is one of the few fruits that does not ripen on the tree. The pear is harvested when it is mature, but not yet ripe, and, if left at room temperature, it slowly reaches a sweet and succulent maturity as it ripens from the inside out.
kGLm TIL that 5 time Cy Young award winner, World Series MVP, bird killing, Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson spends his retirement from baseball as the concert photographer for Rush.
7mvL TIL that when Steven Spielberg first saw a CGI animatic of the T. rex chasing a herd of Gallimimus, he told the go motion creator on set “you’re out of a job”, who in turn replied “don’t you mean extinct?” The dialogue was later written into the script as a conversation between Malcolm and Grant.
N7MQ1 TIL: Time to crack 7 characters password is 0.29miliseconds, 8 characters is 5 hours, 9 characters is 5 days,... and 12 characters is 2 centuries
6ExAm TIL that a monty python sketch repeatedly referring to SPAM (canned cooked pork that got popularized in WW2) inspired the use of the word for mass unsolicited emails