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TIL that pistachios were dyed red to cover imperfections on the shells due to the harvesting methods when grown in the Middle East. But now 98% of pistachios are grown in California, which why you don’t see red pistachios anymore.

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rRELM TIL that November 17th is officially Danny DeVito Day in New Jersey in celebration of the actor, who is an Asbury Park native
NZYE TIL there is a city in Kansas called Gas. Their official motto is “Don’t Pass Gas, Stop and Enjoy It.”
16W7O TIL: “Miss Unsinkable” Violet Jessop survived the sinking of Titanic then survived the sinking of its sister ship Brittanic. The third sister and class namesake Olympic did not sink but Jessop was on board for its collision with a warship.
E1OVo TIL about Richard Feynman who taught himself trigonometry, advanced algebra, infinite series, analytic geometry, and both differential and integral calculus at the age of 15. Later he jokingly Cracked the Safes with Atomic Secrets at Los Alamos by trying numbers he thought a physicist might use.
weP6 TIL Wikipedia, Wayback Machine, Imgur & TorrentFreak were once banned in the UK.