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TIL North Korea's largest export are giant statues

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pYG9A TIL Oklahoma's Official State Vegetable is Watermelon
XEOVj TIL in 1964, a bristlecone pine was killed after a graduate research student accidentally got his tree core stuck in it's trunk. The tree was cut down to retrieve the core only to find out it was the oldest known living organism known at that time. It was estimated to be over 5,000 years old.
a8BJL TIL that European Starlings can mimic human speech
D1eeV TIL that a blue whales tongue weighs as much as an elephant.
kORbE TIL about "baseball rubbing mud". Invented by a third base coach for the Athletics and now in widespread and required use by the MLB it is harvested by a single man in denim cutoffs and disintegrating sneakers. It's source, a closely guarded secret, is located "somewhere" in the Delaware River.