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TIL there is a “Fruit Salad Tree” which can grow up to 6 different types of fruit.

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X0e4r TIL that in 1997, three men from Yemen sued NASA for landing on Mars.They claimed that they inherited the planet from their ancestors 3,000 years ago.
xJKD TIL Christine Maggiore was an activist with HIV who said it didn’t cause AIDS. She convinced thousands of people not to test for AIDS and to have unprotected sex. When she got pregnant she didn’t use medication to prevent the risk of transmission; her daughter died at age 3. Maggiore died of AIDS.
A61o TIL Charles Korsmo, the boy in Hook, Dick Tracy, What About Bob?, and Can’t Hardly Wait, quit acting, went to MIT, then got his JD from Yale and is now Assistant Professor of Law at Case Western.
1eXV TIL that a woman fell to her death BASE jumping from Yosemite’s El Capitan as part of a protest intended to prove the safety of BASE jumping. Her husband filmed the fall from the meadow below.
ZpgVQ TIL while filming The Prisoner of Azkaban, Alan Rickman and Alfonso Cuarón played a practical joke on Daniel Radcliffe. They placed a fart machine in his sleeping bag, positioned him next to a girl he was interested in, and set the farts off during a take that had taken a long time to get.