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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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dDjrd TIL Walton Goggins, as a child, once caught a baseball in his mouth, knocking out his two front teeth. A year and a half later, he dove into a pool and hit the bottom, knocking out his two front teeth again.
9YxxG TIL an IT Director, fed up with sales calls where the caller lied to reach IT staff, said to transfer one such caller 'straight to hell' . This led to the creation of a special extension for such calls where horrible hold music and faked queue messages play on an endless loop to increase hold time.
awjYy TIL that the Soviet Union women's rugby team sold smuggled vodka to pay for their 1991 World Cup expenses and Customs didn't issue any enforcement due to a language barrier
RKE9 TIL The first person to say “motherfucker” on live TV was Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane in 1969
6EYDZ TIL in April 1989, 96 people died during a football match at Hillsborough football ground in Sheffield, Yorkshire