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TIL cashews have a fruit, and they look like mushrooms before harvest

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KeN6 TIL Jules Verne wrote the novel “Paris in the Twentieth Century” back in 1863 and described a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, cities of elevator-equipped, gas-fuelled cars, subways, and a worldwide communications network.
GAK1g TIL that Aladdin is actually originally a Chinese fairy tale. In it, Aladdin actually has a father, but Aladdin is so lazy that the father dies of disappointment. The mother is still alive and spends the rest of the story trying to help her son get married
69BnJ TIL That Fred Rodgers named his royal puppet King Friday XIII because so many people are superstitious about that day and he wanted to make it a fun day instead, so every Friday 13th was also King Friday's Birthday. Happy Birthday King Friday!!!
ADlxl TIL: Prison towns count inmates on their census to receive a greater allocation of federal funds
M7K7a TIL, a man was wrongfully declared dead, so he attended his own funeral, tried to get arrested, tried to get elected and more. it took 19 years for him to be declared alive