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TIL about Watermelon Mosaic Virus spread by aphids looks like someone carved crop circles on a watermelon

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WkV5X TIL that upon return from the moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through US Customs. They declared rocks, dust, and other lunar samples.
gM6N4 TIL about trinonyms: pairs of compounded words, each of which individually means the same as the full compound word. Some examples are bathtub, kittycat, taxicab, and forefront.
PAJO TIL the reason the Gamecube and Wii cannot play standard DVD discs is because the consoles spin the media at a constant angular velocity (the disc spins at the same speed regardless of the laser’s position) versus a constant linear velocity as with standard drives/players.
N7jd6 TIL “The Andy Griffith Show” was a spin-off of an episode of “Make Room for Daddy”
4pka TIL there is a pizza place in Alaska that delivers by plane.