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TIL: the majority of sold/produced oysters have an extra set of chromosomes making them sterile.

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b9RkE TIL in 2006 three men tried to steal a koala from a Queensland, Australia zoo. They gave up after the koala “scratched the shit out of them”, so they stole a crocodile instead.
8XEa TIL Danny Trejo is 70 years old.
a56J TIL that it is a very common misconception that the poinsettia is poisonous. The rumor started when a 3yo’s death was falsely blamed on poinsettia, and it has been passed on that poinsettias are poisonous for about 100 years.
bMva TIL Danny Trejo has 27 movie slated for release in 2015.
9b9B TIL: A Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet protested against redeploying the fleet to Pearl Harbor, believing doing so would put the fleet at unnecessary risk if war broke out with Japan. He was relieved of command in February, 1941.