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TIL that the “Chinese gooseberry” was rebranded as the “kiwi fruit” when New Zealand began exporting them to the USA...during the Cold War.

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KO8Ga TIL: Due to geothermal energy, Iceland produces over a tonne of tomatoes every day
9YQAD TIL that until the 1890s, there were people in Britain whose job was being a village’s “sin eater.” When someone died, you paid a sin eater to come over and eat a 'funeral biscuit' that had been placed on the dead body, taking on their sin in the process.
1aQV TIL the world’s oldest functioning light bulb was built in 1900 and is still burning.
emZb TIL a victim of sexual abuse tracked down her abuser, her father, to help put in him jail. It took her 9 years but she never gave up.
OG0mR TIL the vagina is only ONE of the internal organs of the female reproductive system, and what we see from outside is the vulva, the external part of the female reproductive system, (made up from the labia, clitoris, among others)