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TIL The argan tree grows only in Morocco

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rNBaW TIL that octopuses have three hearts. Two of these hearts pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body. When an octopus swims, the heart that delivers blood to the body actually stops beating, which explains why they prefer crawling to swimming—it’s less tiring for them!
oemR TIL that the English word “Orange” was the name for the fruit for at least a few hundred years before it was the name of a color.
b6E9E TIL that both Ilia Volok, Andrew Divoff and Levan Uchaneishvili were in Wishmaster 2 (they worked two years ago in Air Force One)
Z8omD TIL that Miserere Mei, Deus, a piece of choral music, was a closely guarded secret by the Catholic Church until Mozart went to see it and copied it down off of memory. Instead of being excommunicated like he should have been, Mozart received the Order of the Golden Spur, and it was published.
e0ZVk TIL A Filipino politician Reynaldo Dagsa, photographed his own assassination, 2011