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TIL: Potato Plants Can Form Berries Which Are Toxic

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WkaNA Til that the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the wonders of the ancient world, only stood for 54 years. It then fell over onto the land after an earthquake, where it was visited by tourists for over 800 years.
D10Kp TIL Amur (Siberian) tigers regularly prey on young bears and sub-adult brown bears. Reports of preying on fully grown small female adult Ussuri brown bears by a big male tiger are common as well. Certain tigers have been reported to imitate the calls of Asian black bears to attract them.
NX8VP TIL that the castaways in Gilligan's Island never escaped the island in the show's original run. In a 1978 TV movie they make it off the island, only to end up stranded again. A final 1981 film features the Harlem Globetrotters visiting a resort the castaways set up on the island after being rescued
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