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TIL that hitting a fruit tree can make it feel threatened, spurring it to produce more or larger fruit to distribute seeds before dying.

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e0PV4 TIL about an Indian maharaja who legally adopted 1000 Ukrainian children orphaned by WW2. He took them to India, kept them safe and brought in Ukrainian teachers to educate them, all using his own money.
GAKvE TIL Pope Benedict XVI was part of the Hitler Youth
wdK8 TIL a man jumped from a burning plane at 18,000ft without a parachute and survived with a sprained leg. His crew-mates all chanced a crash landing and died.
PjDZ TIL that none of Bob Ross’s on-air paintings were created spontaneously, and he always had the first copy hidden off screen for reference.
E1egw TIL in Finnish folklore, most Gods and Goddesses appear as married couples with equal or overlapping realms, and thunder is caused when Ukko, the god of skies, and his wife, the earth mother Akka, are having sex