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TIL one French farmer commits suicide every two days

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5Vo6R TIL a rose bush can change color due to grafting. Often, any color of rose is grafted onto a hardier rootstock, like the Dr. Huey variety. The grafted bush can die, and the rootstock grows again and produces a dark red rose, no matter what color the bush was before.
E14Do TIL that in 2001, Alanis Morissette single-handedly extended the Broadway run of "Jane Eyre" by a month, donating $150,000 worth of tickets to poor kids
8arka TIL: Phil Swift founded Swift Response, the company that creates Flex-adhesive Products. They sponsor NASCAR racers and even had the product used to repair one car in the middle of a race.
mx6kv TIL Tolkein popularised "dwarves" as the plural of "dwarf" to differentiate his fantasy dwarves from humans with dwarfism, for whom the correct plural was "dwarfs". The dwarf trope became so entrenched that "dwarves" is now widely recognised as the standard plural of "dwarf" even for humans
nmDd TIL PETA thinks Pokemon promotes animal cruelty