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TIL that “baby carrots” are almost all just regular carrots cut and reshaped to look like small carrots. It was a marketing gimmick.

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y88a TIL that Wimbledon finalist Andy Murray is a survivor of the Dunblane school massacre where 17 adults and children were killed and that his mother gave the killer lifts in her car.
xB6D TIL Pablo Picasso would always pay for things with a personal check. He realized his signature was worth so much that they would rarely cash the check.
9Y49M TIL: Figs aren't actually a fruit, but rather an inverted flower that can only be pollinated when a female fig wasp crawls in. The wasp is then consumed by the flower.
8elwX TIL of the Southeast Asian Massif which encompasses human societies inhabiting a region in the southeastern portion of Asia. Over 100 million indigenous people live amongst the highlands overlapping parts of 10 countries.
N711J TIL the expression 'oi' was voted to be the 61st most beautiful word in the English language by a poll of non-English speakers in 2004. It was added to US Scrabble in 2006.