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TIL a US company tried to patent Basmati rice (traditional rice of India)

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v1gPK TIL a professional photographer designed his home in the shape of a camera
Ooyb1 TIL of Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, who was the only woman to have served in front-line reconnaissance in the Soviet marines during WWII. She carried hundreds of men to safety. In 1944, she helped assault a Ukrainian city, singlehandedly attacking a German position and taking 14 prisoners.
9wYkX TIL Tilda Swinton turned down the role of Professor Trelawney in Harry Potter because she is morally against boarding schools
grrwA TIL Dean Martin was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon in 1982. Martin told reporters he had carried a .38 in his boot for years after several incidents involving strangers coming up to him at restaurants that Martin had considered "life threatening."
M7Lp8 TIL that Spock from Star Trek was almost cut from the show. NBC feared that the Vulcan "looked like the devil and might offend religionists in the audience."