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TIL the pineapple plant only produces one fruit per plant and then dies.

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ePOL TIL General Motors used live animals as crash test dummies up until 1993 and once received a letter “so mean it ended up in the hands of the FBI”.
oBVm8 TIL Tom and Jerry producer Fred Quimby, though not involved in the creative process, took all credit for the cartoon's success. Each time the cartoon won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film, he accepted the awards without inviting the animators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, onstage.
LknbQ TIL of "Corporal Jackie," a baboon who was commissioned as a corporal in the South African Army when his owner refused to go to war without him. He lit cigarettes for his comrades, was wounded twice and won medals, and comforted wounded men until help could arrive.
1d1r TIL that in Texas it is illegal to own six or more dildos
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