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TIL about Cedar Apple Rust - or gymnosporangium juniper-virginianae - which uses the red cedar tree as a host and produces spore-bearing horns that swell in the spring rains, sending its spores out to infect nearby apple trees.

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EoKd TIL, Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing. The deceleration is occurring at about 17 milliseconds per 100 years. This will have the effect of lengthening our days, but it’s happening so slowly that it could be as much as 140 million years before the length of a day will have increased to 25 hours.
kOoO5 TIL: Thích Quảng Đức, also known as, ‘The Burning Monk’, had his heart displayed in a glass case. His heart was thought to be holy after self immolation and 2 attempts to further cremate his remains were unsuccessful, leaving only his heart in tact.
oBGZ8 TIL in 1944, three American B-29 bombers on missions over Japan were forced to land in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, who did not have a similar strategic bomber, decided to copy the B-29. Within three years, they had developed the Tu-4, a nearly-perfect copy
w0AP TIL Ghengis Khan forbade the selling of women, theft of other’s properties, decreed religious freedom, outlawed hunting during breeding seasons, and exempted the poor from taxation.
16MP TIL Americans can find out if the government is holding money for them from wills, trusts, banks, lawsuits, taxes and so on. I learned this as my buddy found out his grandmother left him $65,000.00 in her will. He’s having a good night.