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TIL: you can plant tomato slices in pots and sprout your own tomato plants.

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Ooera TIL that the RMS Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic, rammed a U-Boat and sunk it, making it the only merchant ship in World War I to have sunk an enemy vessel.
XE5JP TIL that Nearly Half Of Deployed US Soldiers Drink 1 Energy Drink Per Day
9YP96 TIL Candace Bergen’s ventriloquist father left $10,000 to his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, and $0 to her. Charlie also had his own bedroom, which was bigger than hers. She also recalls "A gentle squeeze on the back of my neck was my cue to open and shut my mouth so he could ventriloquize me.”
5xpB TIL Until the 1970s, The Supreme Court justices had to watch all the pornographic movies that were declared obscene and rule if they should be banned. As Justice John Harlan was going blind, Justices Potter Stewart and Thurgood Marshall had to describe the action on screen for him.
lonW1 TIL in 1976, a mule named Lord Fauntleroy beat 200 horses in the 3,500-mile Great American Horse Race. Along the way, Norton, the mule’s rider, would often stop to help other riders, beat everyone by 10 hours, and retired with the $25,000 prize while calling himself the “Great American Horseman.”