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TIL An art professor at Syracuse University grafted a single tree that grows forty different types of stone fruit including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and almonds. There are now a handful of these trees in different cities around the US.

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nek17 TIL that After Ted Bundy was convicted, Bundy helped police catch another notorious serial killer Gary Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer. The Express reports Bundy offered to help the FBI and gave his opinions on the “killer’s psychology and motivation”.
NQOE TIL Byron White was a former star football player who became a Supreme Court Justice. He ruled in the case of Runyon v. McCrary in which a black student was rejected by a private school. That student, Michael McCrary would later become a NFL Linebacker and won the Byron White NFL Award in 2000.
oBNZY TIL Our bodies, when healthy, produce 1 to 1.5 liters of snot every day. Most of it trickles down our throat unnoticed.
5VArD TIL that Junko Furuta, a kidnapping and murder victim, was upset that she would never see the last episode of Tonbo (Dragonfly とんぼ). Hiroshi Miyano stuffed a VHS of the episode in a concrete drum with her corpse, not out of remorse or regret, but because he did not want her to haunt him as a ghost
eYdE TIL that Russia’s answer to Eurovision was called Intervision and it was judged by Electricity Grid Voting: “Those watching at home had to turn their lights on when they liked a song and off when they didn’t, with data from the electricity network then being used to allocate points”