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TIL there is a disease for plants literally named "BroomRape"

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ZYXY TIL a natural gas vent in Iraq known as The Eternal Fire has been burning continuously for over 4,000 years, and is mentioned by Herodotus, Plutarch, and in the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel
b6Zp TIL that after Star Trek was canceled, Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhara) volunteered for a special recruiting project at NASA where she recruited America’s first and second female, as well as black male, astronauts.
Wk76N TIL that fraternal twins can have different fathers
loJpV TIL that using his knowledge of telephone systems, Kevin Poulsen, alias “Dark Dante,” hacked the phone lines of a radio station to become the winning caller for a brand new Porsche. He was sentenced to 5 years and banned from using computers for years. Later he reinvented himself as a journalist.
ADY14 TIL a party boat carrying sixty men and women once capsized in Texas after all the passangers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.