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TIL that pineapples do not grow on trees, but on the ground

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nW08B TIL that the first modern battle tank was initially developed by the Royal Navy in WW1. It was conceived as a 'land ship' which is why tanks use nautical terms such as hull, turret, port and hatch.
X0JA6 TIL in 2012 an Oregon woman found a letter from a Chinese labor camp prisoner in a box of Halloween decorations she bought from Kmart. She publicized the letter. The man, who had been released in 2010, saw a news story about it and wrote another letter just for her, thanking her for doing that.
R5N4Q TIL that until the early 1920s, most astronomers thought that the Milky Way contained all the stars in the Universe. Following the 1920 Great Debate between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Doust Curtis, observations by Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies.
MxeK TIL Wade Hampton III allegedly killed 80 black bears using only a knife. He would corner the bear, make it charge then dart to the side and stab it in the heart.
6EDGw TIL there is only one non-terrestrial geocache in existence, placed by Richard Garriott on the ISS in 2008.