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TIL that the little pepper or strawberry attached to a tomato pincushion has a purpose: it’s filled with emery and meant to sharpen your needles and pins.

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PYgnO TIL when Salvador Dali was exhumed 28 years after his death in 2017 for DNA tests, it was discovered that his famous “10 past 10” mustache still remained perfectly intact.
xVRjk TIL that on February 7 1981, a Tupolev Tu-104 passenger jet crashed during take off from Pushkin Airport near Leningrad, Russia, resulting in the death of all 50 people on board, including 16 Soviet admirals and generals, among them the commander of the Pacific Fleet.
l7RaB TIL that Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) had 11 children in total and 7 of them are still alive. The youngest, Christopher Chaplin, is just 62 years old. Charlie Chaplin also had a half-brother, George Dryden, whose son would be the drummer for Jefferson Airplane.
LQgnm TIL Frank Sinatra hated his hit song "Strangers in the Night." He thought it was "a piece of shit" and called it "the worst fucking song" he had ever heard. Sinatra almost didn't record it because it sounded like it was "about two f*gs who meet in the bus station bathroom."
Z8M54 TIL a railroad in Britain with a bad public image hired a 15 year-old to run it's twitter account, with great results.