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TIL that grapefruit gets its name from growing in clusters, resembling a bushel of large, yellow grapes.

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GJg4 TIL that a woman in my suburb was charged with “assaulting a police officer” after she squirted her own breast milk on said officer.
gpY7 TIL The number of aircraft destroyed during WWII is greater than the number of aircraft that currently exist in the entire world today.
negGr TIL about the SMS Emden, a small German cruiser in the first world war that raided shipping in the Indian Ocean. in late 1914 she sailed over 35k miles around the Ocean, sinking a total of 71k tons of shipping. (more in comments)
X0xEE TIL hiccups are contagious (in similar ways that yawns or laughter is)
7roDP TIL- Private Baker and his comrades came under attack by a Japanese force. Baker was hit early. His comrades left him propped against a tree and gave him a pistol, which had eight bullets, American forces retook the position, they found the pistol, and eight dead Japanese soldiers around Baker.