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TIL that half the rice grown in California is the offspring of a mutant strain created in the early 1970s by radiation breeding

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QNXWX TIL about Mexican woman Miriam Rodriguez who tracked the killers of her 14-year-old daughter Karen after she was abducted in 2012. She disguised herself to get their names & addresses & made excuses to meet their families. She was shot 12 times outside her house 10 May 2017, Mother’s Day in Mexico.
Z8AGB TIL that 80% of all avocados sold worldwide are derived from one single tree that was grown from a seed of unknown origin back in 1926.
JYnJ8 TIL that jazz legend Dave Brubeck was nearly expelled from college because he could not read music. The college was afraid it would cause a scandal, and agreed to let Brubeck graduate only after he had promised to never teach piano.
VMAYQ TIL about the organisation that lets you “buy” an acre of threatened rainforest for around $100 to protect it from deforestation.
mw4y TIL Churchill had two secret plans created in case he needed to go to war with the USSR, called Operation Unthinkable. These plans were so secretive, they weren’t revealed to the public until 1998.