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TIL that dragon fruit grow on cacti

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pYnRA TIL: Actor Tony Danza (peak fame in the 80s) was briefly a professional boxer. He went 9-3 with 7 KOs (5 in the 1st round).
4XDdb TIL: At the end of the Buddy Holly song, "I'm Gonna Love You Too," there's a live cricket chirp that can be heard on the recording. Holly and the group decided to leave it in the song as it was on beat, and his band has only months earlier decided to call themselves The Crickets.
4XvVN TIL "Night Witches" were women that flew under the cover of darkness in bare-boned plywood biplanes to bomb the Nazis during WW2.
GYlV4 TIL Louis Pasteur, the scientist who discovered pasteurization, originally did not experiment with milk, but beer.
QnJp TIL residents of Alaska are paid to live in the state. Every year a dividend of the state’s oil revenue is distributed to every man, woman, and child..with checks often amounting between $1,000 and $3,000 dollars.