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TIL about the NASA Moon Trees, trees that have been to space.

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R7Odl TIL they had a swear jar on the set of My Girl for when Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd or Howard Zieff would curse. The ‘f’ word was $10 and the ‘s’ word was $5, which Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky would split. At the end, Jamie owed about $200 each, Dan about $50 each and Howard about $60 each.
0JvA TIL a former FBI agent changed his name to FNU LNU - an acronym for “first name unknown/last name unknown” - to confuse the police and then became the Sherrif of a rogue county
Z8e1v TIL In 2007, Iran arrested 14 squirrels who were suspiciously hanging around a nuclear enrichment plant. The fate of the squirrels is unknown.
PwDV TIL: When Picasso was interrogated by an SS officer about his painting Guernica, “Did you do that?” Picasso replied, “No, you did.”
AMa7 TIL that Giant Timber Bamboo only flowers roughly every 130 years, doing so as an entire species simultaneously around the world.