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TIL American keyboards are different from UK keyboards, and the '@' sign is above the number 2

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l76BK TIL about the NASA Moon Trees, trees that have been to space.
dD4YB TIL at least 58 people have been killed by violent responses to Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.
QkYe TIL Singer/Songwriter Neil Young accidentally gave a group of children a case of poison oak at his annual birthday celebration by having the children roast marshmallows on the poisonous tree’s branches (which he had gathered himself).
R5nZj TIL that mountain lions kill animals much larger than they can eat in a sitting, because other predators (wolves, bears, etc) will inevitably steal their prey. These carcasses become complete ecosystems to several insects who travel from carcass to carcass.
5Voop TIL that Yoko Ono, the wife of musician John Lennon, is the great-granddaughter of Yasuda Zenjiro, the founder of the Yasuda Zaibatsu that got dissolved at the end of World War II.