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TIL that the “Miracle Berry” fruit, a novelty that makes bitter foods taste sweet, has been used to help chemo patients increase their food intake.

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LkW4d TIL that some states grow so much zucchini, people can randomly find baskets or bags full of them in their back seats if they forget to lock their cars.
neE5Y TIL that Hitler had all the copies of the first propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl destroyed, simply because it showed him talking closely with disgraced Nazi Ernest Röhm. Hitler had Röhm killed in the Night of the Long Knives. A single surviving print was found in England in the 1990s.
b9R1a TIL there is a machine called a ballast cleaner. It's sole purpose is to wash stones on railway lines. In the UK, one operator's ballast cleaner washes around 1.6km of stones every night.
R7Qn9 TIL - The military did a study and found that 90% of more than 100 over the counter and prescription drugs were perfectly good to use after 15 years in storage.
LBr TIL in 1959 a pilot ejected from his jet at 45,000 feet and spent the next 40 minutes being thrusted up and down inside of a thunderstorm.