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TIL: Strawberries Can Also Be White Or Yellow

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nPQ9 TIL the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands (now part of New Zealand) strapped their dead to young trees in the forest. In time, the tree grew into and through the bones, making them one.
p8p9e TIL approximately half of all Canadians live south of Seattle.
oR7YW TIL when Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who had a famously deep voice, quit smoking cigarettes at 77-years-old in 2012, he thought that his vocal range would become higher and improve. Instead, his voice became even lower.
Ovx1 TIL that during the Battle of Moscow, despite German forces closing to within 50 kilometers of the city, the Soviet Union still held the annual military parade marking the revolution. Soviet troops who paraded past the Kremlin, then marched directly to the front line and into battle.
69BJ8 TIL about General Secretary Hu Yaobang, who supported democracy, human rights, legal limits on the CCP, and genuine efforts to repair Japanese relations. His death was one of the causes of the Tiananmen Square protests and was only rehabilitated by the party in 2015