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TIL about Companion Planting, which helps gardens grow by planting strategically based on root compatibility and soil optimization

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vBlB TIL: There is a Blue’s Clues that teaches Lucid Dreaming
yVZdp TIL that Alien was based on a comedy film written by its screenwriter Dan O'Bannon called Dark Star, featuring an alien that was just a painted beach ball with rubber claws attached. He eventually started imagining what Dark Star would look like as a horror film.
VMpm8 TIL about Chess960 - a game created by Bobby Fischer which uses the same board and pieces of regular chess, but randomly shuffles the home row to prevent players from relying on memorized strategies and instead rely on their own creativity
neGOr TIL that in 1885, James Whitcomb Riley wrote and published a poem called "Little Orphant Allie", based on a little girl he had met named Alice (nicknamed Allie). Due to a typo in the published version, her name was misspelled as Little Orphan Annie, and this name became a much more famous character.
Oo1re TIL of 'Bardcore'. A spin off from Nightcore, it is medieval inspired remakes of hit pop and rock songs.[