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TIL that nightshade is actually genus, not a species and tomatoes and eggplant are species within that genus.

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yVrp8 TIL about fire classes (in the USA) which each have specific ways to extinguish them—A (ordinary combustibles), B (flammable liquids/gases), C(electrical fires), D (metals like elemental sodium in water), and K (lipids/fats like kitchen fires).
pOvN TIL that the Bananas we eat today are all clones of one another and they might go extinct because there’s no genetic diversity.
XEJVD TIL that the 7.62 X 54R cartridge was designed over 128 years ago and is still one of the most widely used military cartridges to this very day.
rY0 TIL that Mila Kunis was the girl in Aerosmith’s music video “Jaded.”
5Y4XB TIL Jim Carey auditioned for SNL three times but was never cast