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TIL nutmeg and mace come from the same fruit of the same tree

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5KWP TIL that South Australia has a higher rate of hypothermia deaths than Sweden
jNNAa TIL that Russel Harvard - the actor who plays the hitman Mr. Wrench in Fargo - is actually deaf, and helped the directors and costar Adam Goldberg coordinate the scenes involving ASL
vPEB7 TIL that around 20.000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum, the sea level was about 410ft (125m) lower than today and permanent summer ice covered 25% of the Earth’s land surface.
7rZ7P TIL: It’s estimated 98% of the rain forest in Indonesia and Malaysia will be destroyed by 2022, with much of the blame on palm oil farming
5A09 TIL a US PAN satellite was launched in September 2009 and is so top-secret that no military or governmental organization claimed to have built it.