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TIL that weeds don’t have any classification and that any plant could be considered a weed.

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x60gb TIL Babybel cheese held a competition for the best Babybel cheese wax sculpture last year. The winner won $1500 (Australian Dollars) for his sculpture "Three Cheeky Mice". Babybel recreated and displayed a giant version of the sculpture using 20,000 cheeses worth of wax.
Xk5E TIL Electric Eels are apex predators because none of the animals that can eat them want to get shocked
ePnk TIL Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has increased 300% in 2013 when compared to the 7 years prior to the U.S. invasion.
bd6N TIL crows and owls hate each other and will instinctively attack each other on site, even when they’ve had no previous exposure.
OGMOg TIL that the iconic horses on the Kentucky licence plates in the 1990s were based on a logo of a horse park in Lexington which itself was based on a picture of semi-wild horses taken by a German photographer in the 1960s. The base was withdrawn when the photographer sued for copyright infringement.