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TIL: Today I learned about ghost flowers, a flowering plant with no chlorophyll.

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5nKR TIL Sir Walter Raleigh, in his will, left 10 lbs. of tobacco and 2 pipes to each Londoner that attended his funeral, but they had to smoke through the duration of the service in order to receive the benefits of the will.
9w7ap TIL that astronomers regularly observe mysterious lights and temporary changes in structure on the surface of the moon. "Transient lunar phenomena" have not been fully explained, and are almost never observed at two different places on Earth at the same time.
KYbWR TIL that Prada is going to design NASA’s new Moon suit