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TIL the orange is a hybrid of the mandarin orange and a fruit called the "pomelo"

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ZZYG TIL that after fighting, giraffes have gay sex
5jaQ TIL that the reason for ABBA’s often wild and garish costumes was due to Swedish tax law. The cost of the clothes was deductible only if they could not be worn other than for performances.
p88Eb TIL more Africans have access to cell phone service than piped water and electricity.
Eg6o TIL that during the First World War, Siam (now Thailand) sent an army to fight on the Western Front. Because of this, Thailand is the only independent modern Asian nation to have fought in a European theatre of war.
lopD1 TIL there is a scientific journal called “Combustion and Flame”