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TIL some plants like kiwifruit, wild taro, pineapples have microscopic sharp crystalline needles called raphides.

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Oo7jR TIL Charles N'Tchoréré, a Senegalese Tirailleurs Sgt. during WW1, CMDR of the Tirailleurs in French Sudan, came out of retirement to enlist in WW2 as a Captain of a French mixed Coy. Surrounded, they resisted for 3 days at 1 on 10. Refusing to be separated from his white men, Germans executed him
x666b TIL Babe Ruth starred in a film called "Babe Comes Home". It is now considered a lost film, meaning no known copies exist.
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V4Y4 TIL Jack And Meg White of the White Stripes did a strange tour in Canada consisting of many obscure venues, (senior home, bowling alley) and “a show that lasted for a single note. (It was an E. The crowd chanted, “One more note!”)”