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TIL: Apple seeds DO NOT yield the same apple it came from... every apple seed yields a completely unique apple. If you want the exact same apple, you have to cut a branch off the existing apple tree and graft in onto another tree.

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VM1K0 TIL the News Presenters at BBC News have a specific set of clothes on standby just in case they need to announce the death of the Queen
MeXwm TIL that in 2007 workers in Antarctica discovered several perfectly preserved crates of Scotch Whiskey left behind by Ernest Shackleton in 1909.
BxnD TIL there was a kid who killed his parents thinking they’d respawn
QNGre TIL when Joe Louis, the world champion boxer, joined the racially segregated U.S. Army in 1942, he was asked about his decision. He replied, 'There are lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler isn't going to fix them.'
BgVDW TIL: Short Sleeper Syndrome is a gene mutation discovered by the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. They can function normally with less than 6 hours of sleep and never need to "recover" from lack of sleep as opposed to people who purposefully limit sleep. The mutation was given to mice and worked.