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TIL of William James Beal. In 1879, he started one of the longest running experiments in botany, testing the seed viability of 21 plant species over long periods of time. The experiment is scheduled to finish in 2100, when the last bottle of seeds will be tested.

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VdGB TIL in 1968 the Beatles formed Apple Corps Ltd (informally known as Apple). In 1981 a suit was settled with Apple Computer with the payment of $80,000 to Apple Corps. As a condition of the settlement, Apple Computer agreed to stay out of the music business.
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OodM1 TIL when France increased the price of cigarettes by 66% over an eight-year period, the smoking rate among French executives and professionals declined. However, the smoking rate among manual laborers remained about the same and among the unemployed, it increased.
myNY TIL that due to the events of 9/11, the Alt Hip-Hop group ‘The Coup’ had to change their [Party Music] album cover (depicting The Twin Towers blowing-up) before their initial September of 2001 release date. The scrapped album cover had been originally made back in June of that year…