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TIL the Osage Orange is an anachronistic tree, which evolved to depend on extinct megafauna like mammoths and ground sloths. It survived their extinction due to its wood being good for making bows

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d854E TIL that in 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover up the smell by lighting matches, causing an emergency landing.
p8V1N TIL that Harrison Ford was very shy, didn't like talking about himself and was not at all interested in the movie star lifestyle. He suffered from anxiety and had had a lifelong fear of public speaking. Even in films, when required to make a speech in character, he got the same nervous condition.
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Zny4 TIL The 3rd stage of Apollo 12 Saturn V rocket launched in 1969 is an semi-stable orbit and revisited the earth-moon system in 2003 and is expected to arrive again in 2040s
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