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TIL grapefruit is a hybrid of sweet orange and pomelo

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DJMe TIL George Washington said he’d never set foot in London again, so when Virginia gifted a statue of the president to Great Britain they also sent dirt from Virginia to put under the statue.
KO6ow TIL Isaac Newton named indigo as a part of the rainbow because he was really into the number 7.
AOoo TIL if you pause a YouTube video, click outside the frame and type ‘1980’, you will be forced to fight off missiles!
VBGAm TIL on Nov 5, 1872, when American women couldn't vote, Susan B. Anthony voted. She and the election workers refused to pay fines. The judge didn't jail Anthony, which prevented her from taking the case to the Supreme Court, but the workers were jailed (later pardoned by President Ulysses Grant)
l71J7 TIL that Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition