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TIL Cannabis (hemps or weed) is one of the closest living relatives to roses, both being in the Rosales clade

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ZnWQ TIL that because of the decline in bee population, apple farmers in china are now pollinating the trees manually, using a paintbrush.
BrxWk TIL that Apollo 11 astronauts were quarantined for 21 days after returning from the moon to prepare for "the remote possibility that they are harboring unknown lunar organisms that might endanger life on earth"
loG6N TIL Noctambulist refers to a sleepwalker and that Jennifer Aniston suffers from Somnambulism!
P18we TIL more of Africa’s surface area is north of the equator than south of the equator
PxYO TIL In the Star Wars universe, “spice” is actually drugs and Han Solo was a drug smuggler previous to meeting Luke Skywalker.