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TIL Nobel Prize-Winning physicist Richard Feynman put himself on the FBI's Do Not Call list

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EV9w TIL the native americans planted corn, beans, and squash together so that they would benefit eachother. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil that the other plants utilize, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds
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