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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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noEY TIL that in 2004, a F-16 accidentally strafed a New Jersey school with cannon fire on a training mission.
5YmLQ TIL of the 10,000 Year Clock, a clock being built inside a mountain in Texas, designed to run for 10,000 years, without electricity, even if no one ever visits.
wYGP TIL that South African and Swedish scientists have discovered that dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way, and that they are the first animals proven to use our galaxy for navigation.