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TIL loofah sponges come from a gourd and not the ocean.

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m1eNM TIL that an accent called diaeresis is sometimes used in English. It looks like two dots over a letter and is written in alternative spellings of certain words, e.g. "naïve" instead of "naive".
R7MJ8 TIL of Gino Bartali, a cyclist who used his fame as a winner of the Tour de France to smuggle counterfeit documents hidden inside his bicycle through Nazi checkpoints in WWII Italy under the guise of training. These documents allowed as many as 800 Jews to escape persecution by the Nazis.
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