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TIL lemons are a manmade hybrid of an orange and a citron
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TIL about Matthew Buchinger who was born with no hands or feet and stood 29 inches tall. He became a remarkable artist, magician, calligrapher and was a marksman with a pistol. He was also married 4 times, and had 14 children by 8 different women.
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TIL that Box Tops were created by General Mills to help raise money for school, and have raised over 1 billion dollars.
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TIL of the ‘Bodybuilding Village’ in India, a small town of 3500 men who all train 6 hours a day and eat nothing but eggs, milk and bananas to get big and strong.
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TIL that Susan Alfond, Maine’s richest person, made her fortune by selling Warren Buffett a shoe company. Buffett would go on to call this purchase the most disastrous investment of his career and the business ultimately failed.
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TIL that British Airways' only fatal accident was a mid-air collision caused by air traffic control error. The controller saw the problem and alerted one plane to stop climbing but this attempt to avert catastrophe turned what would have been a near miss into the collision he was trying to prevent