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TIL about fasciation, a rare genetic abnormality in plants where they appear to stretch like a glitch in the matrix

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Y7Wgx TIL that legendary rock drummer Ginger Baker unsuccessfully auditioned for a "Weird Al" Yankovic film(titled UHF)
nZXP TIL there are nearly 20 mg of silver per kg of sewage sludge, making it nearly economically recoverable
ADL9w TIL Netherlands has more population density than India
p8nKZ TIL in 1983 a brain wound cured a 19 year old man of OCD and he became a straight A student and retained the same IQ.
b9n89 TIL Jim Henson’s Cookie Monster evolved from a puppet named Arnold, featured (along with Henson) in a Muncho’s potato crisp commercial in 1969.