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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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J1wNB TIL about the Ryfast subsea tunnel system in Rogaland county, Norway, which is the longest (8.9mi) and deepest (958ft) undersea road tunnel on earth
Py0w TIL in 2005 Mark Zuckerberg gave a guest lecture in Harvard’s CS50 to a nearly empty lecture hall
Zxxp TIL in 1977 five TV stations in the UK had their audio simultaneously hijacked for over 6 minutes by someone claiming to be an Alien and warning Earth.
lWQ5 TIL: The results from a recent study of 900 faculty members from over 371 schools nationwide show that Women are twice as likely to be hired over equally-qualified men in STEM tenure-track positions.
grdG8 TIL that the first semi-permanent population to live in Antarctica was American and British sealers who lived on the South Georgia Islands semi-annually starting in 1786.