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TIL unlike most melons, a watermelon will not continue to ripen after it has been harvested. So the ripeness at the grocery store is how it'll be once cut.

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awLo0 TIL: Over the past two centuries, Singapore’s land area has expanded by a 25% – from 58,150 to 71,910 hectares (or 578 to 719 sq km).1 This gradual increase in land surface is not because of tectonic movements but rather the miracle of a man-made engineering feat known as land reclamation.
6EEpW TIL - A dictionary for written sounds (meow, guffaw, neener, etc.) is called an onomatopoeia.
4kLJR Til the real dog, kabosu, the face behind the famous “doge” meme has been diagnosed with leukemia
9YOj6 TIL that the original Nutella was sold as a loaf that was sliced and placed on top of bread.
nyKY TIL that if you add the hunters from Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, you would end up with more armed people than the largest Army in the world. If you add the rest of 46 states, this number would dwarf any Army in the world.