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TIL: Seeds buried in the ground by a squirrel in Siberia 32,000 years are the oldest plant ever to be regenerated

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Zpklv TIL Columbo's signature catchphrase "Just one more thing" originated because a scene was too short, and the writers didn't want to retype the script on a typewriter, so they just had him return and add the line at the end as if he'd forgotten something.
LQ1pd TIL that the inventor of leaded gasoline knew there were viable alternatives to prevent engine knock at a similar cost, but they couldn't be patented like tetraethyl lead could.
VMXk8 TIL the job of police officer isn't even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the USA, with a population of 379 million only 1 million people work in law enforcement in the USA, and according to FBI in 2016 only 118 officers died in the line of duty of which 52 were accidental and 66 were felonious.
4jP5 TIL In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists $50,000 to say that heart disease was most likely caused by saturated fat. After their report was published in JAMA, diets concentrating on low fat gained the endorsement of many health authorities.
YpbXr TIL that the average supermassive black hole is less dense than water.