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TIL pistachio shells take several years to decompose

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R5aa9 TIL Of the Bre-X fraud. The Canadian mining company was a penny stock that reportedly found billions of dollars of gold in Indonesia. The stock skyrocketed but collapsed following the suicide of one of the geologists and discovery that the core samples were salted.
kJdmd TIL that the brothers that founded American restaurant chain Friendly's. brothers S. Prestley Blake and Curtis Blake, lived to 106, and 102 respectively. With S Prestley dying in 2021.
bPBZ TIL of Cincinnatus, a man who was twice given near-absolute authority over the Roman Republic and who twice gave it up.
DQ5xj TIL that there is a species of bison native to Europe. The European Bison is the largest land animal in Europe, is a national animal of Poland, and whose populations were driven to extinction in most of Europe and Asia in late antiquity.
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