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TIL that there is a programming language called INTERCAL which have keywords like IGNORE, PLEASE , FORGET. If you don’t use PLEASE enough times while coding,Compiler rejects the code.

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MLN8 TIL in 1926 a Pasadena mailman planted some avocado seeds intending to graft with the desirable Fuerte variety. The graft repeatedly failed on one tree and he was going to cut it down, but was advised to “wait and see what happens”. It became the mother tree from which all Hass avocados originate.
0kEM TIL Jerome Iginla donates $2,000 to charity for every goal he scores. He has scored over 500 career goals.
6EgBQ TIL Rainn Wilson of "the Office" initially auditioned for the role of Micheal. Instead he was offered the role of Dwight, demoting him to assistant to the regional manager before the show even began.
vpg8 TIL jaguars use their paws to dislocate necks. While hunting horses, they will place one paw on the muzzle and another on the nape and then twist.
kJ7Nd TIL it would take 190 million years to read every possible permutation of Raymond Queneau's book "A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems" The book consists of 10 sonnets of 14 lines each, all sharing the same rhyme scheme and pentameter & cut to be able to mix and match poems 10x14th power different ways