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TIL The largest cashew tree in the world covers an area around 90,000 sq ft (8,400 m2), has a circumference of 1,600 ft (500 m) and produces over 60,000 fruits each year.

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yQWbe TIL about the Ghost Camaro. During the Bosnian War, a 1979 Chevy Camaro was updated with state of the art equipment by US Military and was used to take much needed supplies to civilians.
rNyNx TIL that Treadmills were used as punishment devices for people sentenced to forced labor in British prisons. It was banned as cruel and inhumane by 1900.
mxQZy TIL when 150 doctors, dietitians, and personal trainers were surveyed about how weight loss works only three responded correctly (98% could not fully explain fat metabolism). The correct answer is that fat is converted into carbon dioxide and water - and you exhale most of that fat and pee the rest.
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mKDM TIL Joseph Stalin and Frank Lloyd Wright shared a son-in-law.