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TIL A coconut can be considered as a fruit, nut, and seed or simply "dried drupe"

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4XWrJ TIL that the country with the highest annual gambling spending per capita is Australia ($1200). Afterwards come Singapore ($1100), Ireland ($600), Canada ($570), Finland ($560), Italy ($517), Hong Kong ($500), Norway ($448), Greece ($420), and Spain ($418)
OodM1 TIL when France increased the price of cigarettes by 66% over an eight-year period, the smoking rate among French executives and professionals declined. However, the smoking rate among manual laborers remained about the same and among the unemployed, it increased.
x9mw TIL in 2003 the Polynesian island country of Niue became the world’s first “WiFi nation”, offering free Internet access throughout the country.
EEgX TIL Ray Bradbury’s dystopian classic, Fahrenheit 451, about book burning, was printed with an asbestos cover in the year it launched
N7EK6 TIL That in In Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Ohio, idiots don’t have the right to vote.