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TIL, YMCA help invent Basketball, Volleyball and Racquetball

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1an18 TIL that green olives and black olives are the same fruit, the green ones being picked before ripening and black ones let to ripen on the tree.
oRvYA TIL that urine comes from your blood, not directly from your digestive system.
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