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TIL China sends seeds into space, then uses the resulting mutated seeds to produce abnormally large crops.

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LkoZ9 TIL that in Toy Story 4 instead of creating all of the individual cobwebs by hand, Pixer created AI spiders that were programmed to spin the webs wherever the cobwebs needed to be.
jYMp TIL the swiss city of Basel has a special team of garbage detectives tasked with finding and fining people that dumped their trash illegally.
wL5wM TIL after the American Physical Society's 1986 conference in Las Vegas, the city asked them never to return, as the MGM Grand casino saw record low profits that week. This is presumed to be because the physicists in attendance knew enough probability theory not to gamble.
NnW1 TIL all people convicted in the 1984 Bhopal MIC Gas disaster, which killed 3,000 people and injured over 500,000, got a total fine of $2,000
GAYo4 TIL The Philippines consists of about 7,640 islands