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TIL of the Holocaust memoir Fragments (1995), a worldwide hit that gained much critical acclaim. Its author was interviewed and went into further detail about his horrible experiences. In 1998, it was proved to be entirely fake and its author had never been involved at all in the Holocaust.

xJpk TIL There is a beach in the Maldives that has a glowing blue tide at night.
8e4wX TIL that 706 (now north Georgia) and 905 (now outside Toronto) were area codes for Mexico until 1991.
Yppb7 Short answer: It's complicated
9VBM TIL peas are categorised as seeds, and the pea pod is a fruit.
8pOb TIL that in 2008 Upper Deck released a “baseball” card of Abraham Lincoln that included an actual strand of Abe’s hair.