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TIL 95% of commercially grown avocados come from trees descended from a single tree owned by a California mail carrier.

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Bvwe TIL that the FBI tried to infiltrate a mosque in Irvine by sending one of their agents to incite terrorism. The people of the mosque reported him to the FBI instead.
KR0R TIL that the Brazilian Wandering Spider’s venom not only kills, but can cause paralysis and asphyxiation, but worst of all, it causes “priapism”. This is when an erect penis cannot return to a flaccid start and is known to be extremely painful.
v1ZoK TIL the war game "The Campaign for North Africa" is infamous for absurd it's depth and complexity, where campaigns take and estimated 1500 hours to complete and Italian troops require more water per turn that other troops in order to boil their rationed pasta.
1gEr TIL there is a cola named OpenCola witch is open source. The instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too, license their recipe under the GNU General Public License.
wLdPW TIL that after the release of the 1996 film Scream, which involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage tripled in the United States.