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TIL Black apples exist. In a remote part of Tibet grow "Black Diamond Apples". This is due to the amount of UV light they receive along with temperature fluctuations at night.

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78YE7 TIL that behind Mosquitoes and Snakes, Dogs kill the most humans per year.
JYOrV TIL that "Star Wars" creator George Lucas personally funded "Jurassic Park" paleontologist Jack Horner's "Build a Dinosaur" (a.k.a "chickenosaurus") project, a bid to "reverse genetically engineer a living dinosaur using chicken DNA".
GOV7 TIL that in WW2 English spies planned to make Hitler less aggressive by feeding him oestrogen, the female sex hormone. It would go unnoticed by his food testers because it was slow and subtle. The English spies were already close enough to Hitler to execute the plan, but it never went through.
Br0ny TIL Since 1967, February 29th has been the official birthday of Superman, but not Clark Kent.
5V57B TIL in 1954, Jim Lovell lost his navigation systems while flying at night over the Sea of Japan. He was able to locate his carrier using the bioluminescence of dinoflagellates in its wake and successfully land. He would later go on to land the damaged Apollo 13 capsule.