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TIL grapefruit is a hybrid of sweet orange and pomelo

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QNrRX TIL that in France if you want to register your pedigree dog, you have to give it a name starting with the letter of the year it is born. This year's letter is V.
epdnb TIL of the 1955 Le Mans disaster which killed 84 people and injured 120 others
0dGwN TIL that Texas used to be part of Mexico until 1836. Then it became an independent country for 9 years before being annexed by the United States in 1845.
pB18 TIL the first scene of the first episode of the TV show “Seinfeld” consisted of Jerry and George talking about the button’s on George’s shirt. During the last scene in the last episode, they have that exact same conversation word for word, effectively making the show come full circle.
neAVG TIL In search for a new mathematical model to replace the decimal system, Gottfried Wilhelm von Liebniz read a 3000 year old Chinese book “I Ching”. Fascinated by the simplicity of Yin and Yang, Liebniz used this philosophy to create the binary number system.