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TIL In 1911, the federal government banned the cultivation, sale, and transport of blackcurrants to protect the white pine.

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6kbZ TIL an undercover FBI informant who infiltrated a Mosque in Irvine, Calif., stirred the pot so much to entrap other Muslims to engage in “violent jihad” that he was reported to law enforcement himself by the Mosque.
JYZy1 TIL A special 90mm solar telescope can show thousands of small (by solar standards) columns of hydrogen plasma in profile at the edge of the Sun. These short-lived features, as long as the diameter of the Earth, merge together to give the Sun’s edge a ‘furry’ appearance
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