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TIL the wild ancestor to domestic apples is vulnerable to extinction because the location of origin has been subject to significant loss of appropriate land to grow.

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jNw7v TIL For all you Area 51 people, Tresspassing on a military base: Persons are subject to 6 months imprisonment, a $500 fine, or both.
m156Y TIL that Stephen King allows filmmakers to license one of his non-contract stories for $1! It's referred as "dollar-babies" .
ANoao TIL Mayans used a base 20 counting system and it is believed they did so because they counted both fingers AND toes.
wolgo TIL that the inverted cross mostly associated with Satanic and anti-Christian imagery is actually the symbol of Saint Peter's martyrdom, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus.
4kMjN TIL about the Zanclean flood: 5.33 Mya the dried-up Mediterranean Sea completely refilled within months, after being cut-off from the Atlantic for 630,000 years (Messinian salinity crisis). The waters broke through the Strait of Gibraltar at 1,000x the rate of the Amazon!