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TIL Scotts Miracle-Gro helped create a type of grass that's resistant to weed killer. It escaped its lab and spread across Oregon, becoming an unwanted weed with no easy way to kill it.

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EkRp TIL NYC homeowners can request that a tree be planted outside their homes for free.
lo4bA TIL of Henry Lucas, who in 1663 founded a professorship of mathematics at Cambridge University. The "Lucasian Professor of Mathematics" has become hugely prestigious, with holders including Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.
9YdD TIL that the raw flour in cookie dough, and not the raw egg, was responsible for an e. coli outbreak that led to 35 people being hospitalized
m80y TIL There is a Muppet Christmas Special where Kermit meets the Fraggles, Swedish Chef tries to cook Big Bird, Muppet Babies are the old home movies, Cookie Monster eats all the Christmas cookies, and Jim Henson does the dishes.
WkyOY TIL that during the filming of Breaking Bad actress Julia Minesci who played a meth addicted prostitute was legitimately propositioned for sex during the shooting of a scene.