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TIL Coconuts managed to migrate to the Caribbean by floating across the ocean

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N7XGM TIL in 2007, producers for ABC's Extreme Makeover coaxed a contestant's family into making hurtful comments about her ugliness, then cut the contestant from the show because the recovery period wouldn't fit their production schedule. The contestant's sister killed herself four months later.
1vj4 TIL A British Man rescued 669 children destine for death camps from Nazis, arranged for them to have homes and smuggled them to Britain. Today is his 105th birthday
EXrV TIL that the Dutch government once enforced a tax in new buildings based on their width, which led to the tall and narrow houses throughout the Netherlands.
WJg4 TIL After leaving office, Harry Truman lived on $113 a month
x5Lw TIL famed actor / comedian W.C. Fields so hated tourists walking up the driveway of his Los Angeles home that he would hide in the bushes and shoot BBs at their legs.