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TIL That this fruit is the world’s shiniest living thing

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yV5Pv TIL After Losing the Civil War, the Vice-President of the Confederacy, Alexander H. Stephens, was elected to the U.S. Senate, House, and was Governor of Georgia until 1883
G0E4 TIL in 1915 a raisin company executive spotted a teenage girl drying her curly brown hair and wearing her mother’s red bonnet and hired her for a stunt promotion that had her dropping raisins from an airplane. Soon she became the company’s first mascot called, “Sun Maid.”
ADDXl TIL the last hanging in the US was in Delaware in 1996
ZRjD TIL the main vehicle for the US Postal Service, the Grumman LLV (Long Life Vehicle), gets an average fuel economy of 10 miles per gallon.
9kjD TIL Marijuana was made illegal in 1937 by a man who testified that the drug made white women want to be with black guys.