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TIL That Pine Nuts come from Pine Cones

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Br5wb TIL Escape (The Piña Colada Song) was the final US number one song of the 1970s
grZ97 TIL: In 1982, scientists resubmitted published articles to major psychology journals. Almost none of the reviewers noticed that the articles had already been published, and nearly all of the reviewers said the articles had "serious methodological flaws."
OoaM7 TIL Jimi Hendrix and his band accidentally dropped lump of hash in their dressing room's sink right before a BBC concert. They had to dismantle the drainpipe to save it. "I found a maintenance man and begged tools [..] We succeeded in our task and had a great smoke." remembers drummer Mitch Mitchell
P1gyZ TIL that the 2022 Tonga Volcanic eruption shot 146 metric megatons of water 36 miles up into the stratosphere where it still remains and that it may now push the Earths temp above 1.5°C temporarily.
GYd07 TIL after Zaire (now the Demоcratic Rеpublic of Congo) were eliminated from the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the team wanted to keep the complimentary BMW bus they were given to use during the tournament. They tried to return home from West Germany on the bus, but were stopped before leaving the country