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TIL grapefruit is a hybrid of sweet orange and pomelo

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jN1rE TIL that John Rockefeller, “provided major funding for Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in Atlanta for African-American women, which became Spelman College.”, was an ardent abolitionist, and donated in total $550 million of his 1910 dollars to universities, sciences, arts, and churches.
RNJ9 TIL the Irish Famine was effectively a genocide of the Irish people instigated by the British establishment. Even though the common Irish person was starving, tons of food were exported every day out of the country.
Brxyd TIL about the Lost Colony of Roanoke, the first attempt at British settlement of North America. The leader of the colony left for England for supplies and returned to find all 120 colonists and their buildings had vanished. The only clue was the word ‘CROATOAN’ carved into a tree.
1aPZ8 TIL in 1989, Dermott, a town in Arkansas, passed a curfew law that allowed for punishment of the curfew-breaker's parents by putting them in stocks for two days. The punishment was remitted, among other things, because the city had no stocks nor had allocated funds to build them.
mrPE TIL Study proves “old person smell” is real.