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TIL avocados must be picked to ripen, can stay on the plant for 7 months as "storage" , and take 13 months to grow a mature avocado.

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e0aOb TIL that Baywatch's fans were predominantly women. 65% of viewers were female, with its number-one audience being women aged 18 to 34. It turns out that the female viewers liked that the show's lead characters were strong, independent, heroic women who were saving lives and were equal to the men.
xVRjk TIL that on February 7 1981, a Tupolev Tu-104 passenger jet crashed during take off from Pushkin Airport near Leningrad, Russia, resulting in the death of all 50 people on board, including 16 Soviet admirals and generals, among them the commander of the Pacific Fleet.
8vDL TIL that everyone in Iceland pays church tax, and the payment of those unaffiliated with a church goes to the University of Iceland [at least as of 2004]
yPQ8 TIL that the official name for ‘Mexico’ is the “United Mexican States.”
Y7x7Z TIL that FDR led an insurgency against NY's Tammany Hall machine when he became state senator in 1910, costing him the US Senate primary in 1914. Only after he became NY Governor in 1928 could he bring corruption investigations, ending Tammany's more than a century of control over the NY Dem Party.