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TIL red kiwi fruit have been spawned

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nWX6r TIL that Johnny Nash, famous for his song "I Can See Clearly Now" (1972), sang the theme song for the 1960s cartoon "The Mighty Hercules".
GYQeQ TIL that just over a century ago, people preferred to sleep in two shorter shifts at night rather than just have one long sleep.
1DMP TIL that in 1994, a Boy Scout named David Hahn created a nuclear breeder reactor for his Eagle Scout project. It emitted 1000 times the natural background radiation and had to be confiscated by the government.
d8LMK TIL: Blood types evolved over time with A being the oldest in pre-humans and with B, O, and AB evolving starting about 5 million years ago.