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TIL: In 2008, Japan sent sakura(cherry blossom) seeds to the ISS and it spent 8 months onboard. After reaching the planet Earth, they planted those seeds from where they were collected and surprisingly, the tree bloomed in just 4 years instead of 10 and the flowers bloomed with 6 petals instead of 5

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