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TIL most avocados are descended from one tree grown by a Milwaukee postman in 1926

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NXgeb TIL DNA can be taken from parchment. The DNA taken from parchment can be used to determine the animal of origin and its relation to other parchments.
Oo6AL TIL there are no mosquitoes in Iceland
mbEp TIL in 1867 Alaska became the only place to have two Fridays in succession. This was due to the United States purchase of Alaska from Russia, causing it’s timezone to change from GMT+14 to GMT-10
rNkl1 TIL that Brent Koster was recently paroled after serving 50 years in prison for picking up women in his hometown by car and transporting them to remote areas and murdering them. He recently tried to start an Uber type service, ... in his hometown.
VMm0D TIL: That having Red hair and Blue eyes is the rarest color combination in humans. Less than 2 percent have red hair and around 17 percent of people have blue eyes. Blue eyes and Red hair? 0.17 percent chance.