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TIL that a nigerian scammer asking for money was instead scammed into sending in a wooden bust of the victim to the victim

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GYN7N TIL 70 percent of the world’s Macadamia Nuts came from one tree in Australia. All of Hawaii’s macadamias share distinctive markers with a tiny wild grouping of trees in Gympie, suggesting that all of the state’s modern crops were likely cloned out of a single Australian tree.
neW7G TIL Plato was a distinguished gymnast and wrestler, and well known for his wrestling prowess.
P1LaJ TIL Human penis shaped like a mushroom is to scoop out or displace the prior male’s semen
rNaPo TIL that West Virginia's split from Virginia was controversial. Instead of joining the civil war, citizens met to form WV. Legally a state split needs the consent of the existing government, but when the only representatives in D.C. were from WV, Lincoln decided they were Virginia's only government.
x60v0 TIL about Capt. Ben Salomon, a US Army dentist who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for defending wounded soldiers from hundreds of Japanese attackers at the Battle of Saipan (1944)