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TIL that Orson Welles had a marijuana garden at his Las Vegas home, which he personally tended.

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kNy4 TIL in 1962, two American geologists found that a large rock face above a Peruvian town could collapse during an earthquake. The Peruvian government ordered the two to retract their work or face prison. Eight years later, an earthquake collapsed the rock face, killing 20,000 of the town’s residents.
jJDa TIL that Octopus eyes do not have a blind spot and evolved separately from vertebrate eyes - an example of convergent evolution.
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