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TIL papayas can naturally change sex while growing and scientists are working on methods to produce fruit-only plants

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yQM1J TIL that after his success in Terminator 2, Edward Furlong, 15 and his former stand-in and tutor, 28 year old Jacqueline Domac, began a relationship that lasted for a few years. His guardian, Sean Furlong filed a complaint against Domac, but was unsuccessful
wmZY TIL Christopher Walken’s speaking style goes back to childhood, when he changed punctuation in his textbooks with a marker to be where he wanted the periods, commas, and exclamation points to be.
a8kxL TIL In 1914 astronomers at the Royal Observatory made a careful study of the transit of Mercury in order to determine whether Mercury had any moons and essentially proved that the planet has no moon
5YlMn TIL that the movie Clue in 1985 had 3 endings that were randomly distributed to theaters. People argued about the ACTUAL ending although they’ve seen two different ones.
kZpm TIL that when a woman asked Leonard Nimoy “Are you aware that you [as Spock] are the source of erotic dream material for thousands and thousands of ladies around the world?”, he replied “May all your dreams come true”.