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TIL that the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity is still alive and producing fruit

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eaWk TIL that English has different words for animals and their meats (i.e. cow/beef) due to the Norman conquest of England. The ruling Normans continued using French words to refer to the meat served to them by peasants – who continued using English words to refer to the animals they dealt with.
94wm TIL HAL Laboratory named that way because each letter put them one step ahead of IBM
W7DD8 TIL that adolescent girls in East Africa collect adult water beetles and let them bite their nipples to stimulate breast growth.
K9Ja TIL much of the female brain shuts off during orgasm, but it’s not known if it happens in men because men finish too fast for the scanner
ne0Ld TIL that Russian License Plates use Cyrillic Characters, but only the ones that look like Latin Characters.