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

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R79l TIL that in the United States, possession of child pornography often results in a harsher sentence than actually molesting a child would
9aEQ TIL that NASA has special wristwatches that keep Mars time for employees working with the rovers
bea0 TIL several European countries prescribe free heroin to addicts in order to improve there “social and health situation” while “significantly reduce[ing] costs incurred by trials, incarceration, health interventions and delinquency.”
X0pZQ TIL the national anthem of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is “Yumi, Yumi, Yumi”
j6kNX TIL nearly every TV sitcom "laugh track" was created by one guy in his garage, operating a mysterious invention