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TIL that Scallions and Green Onions are the same thing, but Chives come from a completely different plant.

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W8mA TIL that 4 US states have completely banned billboards
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b996j TIL that in 1981, a Maltese man unknowingly welded a butterfly bomb onto a pipe, which detonated when he used it as a mallet
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ADxLw TIL of Planet Nine - A hypothetical, 10x Earth-sized planet within our solar system that orbits around the sun every 15k years. This hypothesis is currently supported by Jim Green, director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and professor Tom Levenson of MIT.