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TIL Washington State leads apple production in the United States, accounting for over half of the nation’s domestically grown apples.

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PY4xn TIL the Berlin Wall came down by mistake. When the East Germans planned to slowly open the border they announced it at a press conference without including a plan. When a reporter asked when it would be opened, the party official mistakenly said "Immediately, without delay" causing a run on the wall
jMkn TIL that Tigers in China are bred in captivity, those in captivity far outnumber the amount of wild tigers, as tigresses are made to produce cubs at 3 times more than their natural rate by having cubs weaned of pigs or dogs. All this to make Tiger Bone wine
pY9Xe TIL that prior to human settlement, the only land-based mammal on Iceland were arctic foxes.
By TIL that Saddam Hussein had a daughter named Hala of whom no photographs or records exist, and that her current whereabouts are unknown.
W7kJ8 TIL tin leprosy or tin pest that destroyed pipe organs in the medieval times happens because at 13.2 °C (56F) and below, tin transforms from the silvery, ductile metallic allotrope of β-form white tin to the brittle, non-metallic, α-form grey tin.