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TIL that the origin of the Honeycrisp Apple is a 50+ year secret, known only to the creators, researchers at the University of Minnesota

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j61pE TIL spaces between words in documents first appeared in Irish and Anglo-Saxon Bibles in the seventh century. Paleographers today identify the extinction of 'scriptio continua' as a critical factor in augmenting the widespread absorption of knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era.
xbb7 TIL a WWI ace landed his biplane atop an enemy observation balloon, cut his engines, and slid off into an acrobatic maneuver leaving the balloon to erupt into flames behind him
e0RXE TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibious car, a car that serves as both a vehicle and a boat. He used it to scare guests by driving them into his lake while screaming that the brakes were malfunctioning
1aWZO TIL that when Peru’s national football team qualified for this year’s World Cup, their fans’ celebrations were so loud that they produced enough of a seismic wave to trigger earthquake alerts in Lima.
W7o9o TIL A 69 year old woman took South Korea's written driving test 960 times before she finally passed and was given her license