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TIL grapefruit is a hybrid of sweet orange and pomelo

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eJBJ TIL Charles Dance’s father was 72 years old when Charles was born.
b6W1Z TIL of Snorri Thorfinnsson, an Icelander who was the first child of European descent to be born in the Americas, in the early 11th century. His parents were explorers Thorfinn Karlsefni and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir. He is one of the two main figures responsible for the Christianisation of Iceland.
nelA7 TIL a park project in Los Angeles, named Hollywood Central Park, is proposed to be built atop the 101 freeway as a cap, creating 44 acres of recreational land for the community and essentially turning a mile of the freeway below into a tunnel.
dDVMK TIL that the fictional substance "Kryptonite" was originally portrayed as red in color on Comic pages in November 1949. It did not adopt its characteristic green hue until August 1951.
ExBW TIL Bears are attracted to duct tape.