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TIL that rented out VHS copies of Fast Times of Ridgemont High broke at a higher frequency than any other movie due to people mass pausing and rewinding Pheobe Cates’ famous topless scene.

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lo7Dr TIL 6 masterpieces for solo piano were discovered to great excitement, and confirmed by the leading experts to be genuine works by Haydn. They were later proved not to be by him, and are now largely ignored; despite them being genuinely original music which had the aficionados enthralled.
J5gv TIL There is an “Apple Tree Colony” in Ukraine across 10k sqft consisting of only one tree that spread naturally by creating roots from it’s branches (as a gooseberry shrub does). Scientist have not been able to reproduce this with other apple trees.
E1MlW TIL the Package Saver is the name of the little plastic table that goes into the middle of pizza boxes.
Me1yA TIL: Charles Joseph Bonaparte, the great-nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, lived in Maryland and served in the cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt. He created the FBI.
AgE4 TIL that the word “Sanction” is an antonym of itself.