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TIL that Shaq turned down the role of John Coffey in The Green Mile. And it worked perfectly for everyone, including us

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6EXn8 TIL there is a group working on creating glow in the dark trees. They are working on splicing bioluminescent genes from Jellyfish/Mushrooms/etc. into trees which they could then breed for greater and greater brightness. The goal would be trees that could one day replace streetlights.
e0m7k TIL The International Potato Center has successfully grown potatoes in a simulated Mars environment. They grew the plants in a CubeSat which mimicked the Martian air pressure and atmosphere, and used saline desert soils analogous to Martian soils as the growing medium.
X0LGr TIL The Viet Minh signed a treaty to pay the French 5 billion francs after the Indochina War to buy the rights to the Tonkin collieries in North Vietnam. The sum was payable by means of coal shipments over 15 years.
gMXO4 TIL in the 1900s, over 60,000 US citizens were forcefully sterilized under the reasoning that they were disabled or mentally unfit to birth America’s future generations.
5K5k TIL a company named LifeStylePets sold a new exclusive cat breed for $100,000 but a DNA-test proved they were reselling cheaper cats for extreme amounts