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TIL there is only one species of cactus that can be found naturally occurring outside the Americas

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J1O4V TIL that Sam Raimi was offered to be the director of Spider-Man (2002) because of his acting role in a short film titled "Indian Summer."
aEM9 TIL in early 2000s enterpreneur Ken Belanger sued Microsoft for illegal use of his “Pocket PC” trademark. Ken’s “Pocket PC” was a 1985-made plastic coin with 0 and 1 engraved on front and back sides.
BgwJr TIL that in Romania in 1999, a man and a woman died of carbon monoxide poisoning while having sex in a car parked in a garage with the engine running and won the 1999 Darwin Award.
D1bXD TIL Kodak operated a secret nuclear reactor in the basement of their headquarters for 30 years.
GYKG7 TIL Apollo-11 trajectory to the Moon is named "Kondratyuk Route" after a self-educated Ukrainian who had calculated it 50 years before the lunar flight