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TIL Pineapples are multiple fruits.

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mE1M TIL after the release of ‘Top Gun’, the US Navy stated the number of young men who joined wanting to be Naval Aviators went up by 500 percent.
9YYM6 TIL when the band Judas Priest appeared on The Simpsons, they were mistakenly defined as "death metal". The producers decided to apologize for this mistake by having Bart Simpson write "Judas Priest is not 'Death Metal'" in the opening sequence chalkboard gag
VMNXm TIL a woodpeckers tongue is so long, it actually wraps around its skull providing further insulation to the brain in warding them from concussions
yOdM TIL that oats and rye were weeds that evolved to imitate wheat and barley to confuse farmers, and only later were farmed on purpose
GvLE TIL that “72% of wingsuit flyers had witnessed death or serious injury, and 76% had experienced a ‘near miss’”