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TIL slugs evolved from snails, and exposing baby snails to platinum turns them into slugs

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YE5A TIL that actor John Cazale only ever appeared in five movies, but all five were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. After his death, archive footage of him was used in a sixth movie. This, too, was nominated for Best Picture.
d8ZLj TIL that a high school basketball coach was fired after his team won 100-0 because the Catholic school he worked for thought that winning by such a wide margin did not show a “Christlike and honourable approach to competition”.
x606B TIL that the sun accounts for 99.8% of the the total mass of our solar system
14W7 TIL Qatar, a desert state, is aiming to grow up to 70 percent of its own vegetables by 2023 thanks to the launch of a new farming system that needs no soil and which recycles irrigation water. The pilot project had been “a great success” and adapted well to Qatar’s harsh growing conditions
kAJ7 TIL that rice thrown at weddings poses absolutely no danger to birds.