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TIL a potato plant can grow tomatoes if you graft a tomato plant to it. It's called "pomato."

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mxQKE TIL that if a diesel engine can draw fuel from an unintended source, like excess combustible gas that is in the air, it will have a runaway and experience overspeeding at RPMs of up to 10X the engines rated capacity.
rNMVy TIL that prop material from David Lynch's Dune (1984) was reused in a raunchy mexican comedy film about two astronauts landing in a planet inhabited solely by women, called “Two trashy guys on the planet of women” (Dune was shot at Estudios Churubusco in Mexico)
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