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

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M6AK TIL the Kargil war in 1999 between India and Pakistan is the only war ever between two countries where both have weapons of mass destruction.
ZNaG TIL that Szechuan Sauce comes from the Asian Sichuan peppercorn which was banned in the US from 1968 to 2005 because it carried canker bacteria. The FDA lifted the ban provided that the peppercorns were heated to to kill any bacteria before import. The bacteria was only harmful to other crops.
VM4x8 TIL the Russian battleship Sissoi Veliky was built with design and construction problems, yet commissioned anyway. Flooding from an artillery barrage and torpedo hit sank her in the only battle she participated in, causing the deaths of 47 sailors.
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