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TIL That rain can cause cherries to split or mold while ripening, ruining the entire crop. Water collects in the divot where the stem attaches to the cherry. After a rain, cherry growers will hire helicopters to fly low over the cherry trees to dry off the cherries and shake the tree branches.

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MeGpW TIL Brazilians primarily spoke their native Tupi language up to the mid 18th century because Jesuit missionaries encouraged the natives to keep their mother tongue and enforced Europeans to learn it. However, in 1759 the Jesuits were expelled by the Prime Minister and Tupi quickly went extinct.
n1Ar TIL in their latest film ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ stop motion animation studio LAIKA used 3d printing for the Kubo character giving him 11,007 unique mouth expressions and 4,429 brow expressions, allowing for over 48 million possible facial expressions.
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Mepw8 TIL that in 2010, Korea temporarily removed tariffs on napa cabbage and radish imports because heavy rains and subsequent loss of crops, and therefore lack of kimchi, was considered a national crisis