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TIL tomato can be grown on potato, and eggplant on a tree (s. torvum)

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N7DbN TIL that the larger Pacific striped octopus is one of the only species of octopus that is not cannbalistic during mating, rather the two partners embrace each other intimately with their beaks and suckers, and they live in groups of up to 40 individuals unlike most other solitary species of octopus
WkDl4 TIL the 9th president of the USA William Henry Harrison, contracted and subsequently died of pneumonia after performing A exhausting 8,445 word speech in subzero conditions with no coat or gloves for warmth.
0d4X1 TIL that in 1948, a U.S. Air Force meteorologist suggested testing nuclear weapons on the East Coast but was rejected. Instead, the weapons were tested in the West and exposed millions of Americans to fallout.
p8ZpG TIL whales blow bubbles in a circle to trap fish, and then swim up through the vortex to swallow them!
odNL TIL that Mel Gibson advised Heath Ledger not to accept the role in Brokeback Mountain because it would “ruin his career,” and then stopped talking to him after he accepted the part.