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TIL peach pits contain seeds inside of them and they look like almonds. Cracking them and planting only the seed grows trees a lot faster. (I thought the whole pit was the seed)

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OM9X TIL that Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller did a “penny behind the ear trick” for television while having brain surgery. Teller had him remain conscious so that he could see the penny after Teller produced it and say it was the one he marked. The resulting footage was too disturbing to be aired.
XR7X TIL An Oxford University study concluded that men need at least two “guys nights” a week to stay healthy
6EEbW At peak performance, Summit will perform 200 million billion operations a second and require as much energy as a decent-sized city (12,000 homes!).
KBoJ TIL that Hessian mercenaries made up a quarter of all troops that Great Britain sent to America and roughly 5,000 of the 30,000 sent ended up defecting and settling in North America.
9YJrr TIL Future US President Hoover Had to Spend 14 Days in Quarantine after arriving in Australia as a Young Mining Engineer in 1898