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

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Wk0GL TIL that during Prohibition many major breweries turned to selling malt extract for use in baking breads and desserts. It was also hop flavored. One city reported enough was sold each week to make 16 loaves of bread for every man, woman and child.
GjVN TIL the world’s oldest pool of water was discovered deep in a Canadian mine. It is 2 billion years old.
KjDG TIL That NATO must treat any attack on an ally’s soil as if it were their own, unless it’s Hawaii.
ajP0 TIL one gallon (about 4 liters) of gasoline contains about 31,000,000 calories
Erbw TIL - The highest blood alcohol content ever recorded was .91%, more than twice the typical lethal limit and eleven times more than legally drunk.