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TIL there is a Seed Vault that protects seeds from all sorts of natural and man-made disasters; essentially a food insurance policy in case the world goes to hell.

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KO466 TIL in 2005 there was an erroneous Emergency Alert TV/radio broadcast in Connecticut that called for the evacuation of the entire state. Residents did not evacuate, and the most common response was to simply change the channel.
Vy94 TIL a concert grand piano has to resist 30 tons of pressure being put on it by the tensioned piano wires
RBE4 TIL Doug Funnie from Nickelodeon’s ‘Doug’ was originally a character in Florida grapefruit juice commercials.
epWYn TIL that an octopus has 3 hearts and blue blood
R7vj6 TIL of a suicidal man who went to a bridge to kill himself, changed his mind, then decided to push a stranger to his death instead.