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TIL that over three quarters of the grapefruit produced in Texas is from Atomic Gardening, a form of mutation breeding where plants are exposed to radiation.

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9oVB TIL that Kathryn Beaumont was 13-15 years old when she voiced Alice and Wendy in the original 1950s animated Disney films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). She returned 50 years later to voice the same characters in 2002 for KingdomHearts at the age of 64.
5VmxQ TIL the United States runs a program with lasers and lunar reflectors that measure the distance to the moon, started in 1970 - with an accuracy better than 3 centimeters since the 1990s.
4klBJ TIL the title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 feature film, "Vertigo" was created using computer graphics—a notable first and a major milestone.
QNoYk TIL classical music composer Chevalier de Saint-Georges, controversially known as "Black Mozart", was also a master athlete described by John Adams as "the most accomplished Man in Europe in Riding, Running, Shooting, Fencing, Dancing, Musick"
GY4PJ TIL of the Burnside Fountain, "Boy With Turtle," infamous in a nearby town for its design. Sculptor Charles Y. Harvey killed himself a week after beginning the piece, claiming to have heard voices coming from inside the sculpture which instructed him to commit suicide on a specific date.