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TIL Serbia grows over one-third of the world raspberries

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rRwXM TIL That to help combat iron deficiency(a worldwide nutritional problem), “lucky iron fish” - iron lumps molded into the shape fish are made to be added to cooking pots in Cambodia.
6Pe8 TIL major cities like New York, Paris, and Toronto create and maintain fake building fronts in urban centres to conceal vent shafts and utilities. The ‘property’ in Brooklyn concealing a 19th century vent shaft is worth over 2 million!
N7LL6 TIL Photoshop 1.0 was released on February 19, 1990 for Macintosh exclusively at a price of $895. At the time of release, it cost around $300 an hour for basic photo retouching. Photoshop became available for Microsoft Windows in 1993 where it would reach global audiences within a few years.
VMo7D TIL that the pied piper is a legend, not a fairy tale. 'The earliest written record is from the town chronicles in an entry from 1384 which states: "It is 100 years since our children left."'
R7NQ6 TIL a sheepdog made a 240-mile journey home to his birthplace in Wales after escaping from his new home in Cumbria. He was sent to the Cumbrian farm to work but turned up on the doorstep of his original owners 12 days later, limping and a little thinner than before, but in otherwise good condition.