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TIL asparagus takes 3 years to grow from seed to harvest.

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4XlLX TIL 5 Of The 10 Deadliest Wars in World History Began In China
epBmE TIL that the California St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928, a midnight-hour 120' wave that killed 431 sleeping people and wiped out giant sections of land more than 50 miles west to Ventura, was caused by the dam having been built on a fault zone (in addition to the dam's retention of water).
kBxm TIL Nelson Mandela was a heavyweight boxer in his younger years. He continued to train while he was in prison.
NnXb TIL that a popular stuffed polar bear, located at Science Museum of Minnesota, was killed after being beaten to death by vandals at a local zoo.
oBMbr TIL it is rumored that Pablo Escobar committed suicide. It was never confirmed that a police officer fired the fatal shot through his ear. His brothers insisted "he would say to me every day that if he was really cornered without a way out, he would 'shoot himself through the ear'"