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TIL Cranberries aren't grown under water, instead the fields are flooded with 18 inches of water the night before, in order to harvest the cranberries easier.

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b9Bxa TIL Nazi spies tried infiltrating Russia in WW2 using fake passports; the passports were recognized as fraud because Russian passports use iron staples that stain the pages with rust, while Nazis used steel. During the Cold War, American spies made the same mistake
78rAx TIL that Australian hackers targeted NASA in 1989 with one of the first computer worms, and arguably the first ever instances of "hacktivisim" with the "Worms Against Nuclear Killers" (or WANK) worm.
xVKg5 TIL that there is a marathon in the town of St. Charles, Missouri called MO' Cowbell, which was named after the "Saturday Night Live" sketch "More Cowbell"
6VkX TIL Orangutangs have been held captive & used as sex slaves - “We found her chained to a wall, lying on a mattress. She had been shaved all over her body….If a man walked near her, she would turn herself around, present herself, & start gyrating and going through the motions”
GAljg TIL that the last of the kidnappers convicted of the 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping (in which 3 kidnappers hijacked a school bus with 26 children on board and forced them into a moving truck buried in a quarry before they escaped after 16 hours underground) was paroled in 2022.