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TIL that weeping willows, and almost all other weeping trees, are cultivars. Humans propagated mutated trees for their beauty. There are no true species of weeping tree; they are all growth forms of upright trees.

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x6Mmg TIL Craig Mazin is now known for co-creating dramas like "The Last of Us" and "Chernobyl" and comedies like "Scary Movie 4", but he also wrote for "Dune: Part Two" and "Wicked", only being credited after the WGA revised their policy.
geB4 TIL Southwest Airlines once offered a free bottle of booze with the purchase of a full fare ticket and for two months became the largest distributor of premium liquor in the state of Texas
b91B0 TIL that the largest Yakuza family had a tradition of handing out Halloween candy to trick or treaters
Z8E6Q TIL some indigenous people are known to have deciphered bird language and used it to locate predators that birds were warning other birds about
9wVN6 TIL about the Levon Affair, a false flag operation in Egypt committed by Israeli intelligence. The bombings were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood. Incriminating evidence was found in the apartment of one of the agents whose bomb prematurely ignited.