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

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jNJea TIL Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev traveled .02 seconds into the future
G8wE TIL there is a programming language called Malbolge, specifically designed to be almost impossible to use. When it was created it was so difficult to understand that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear.
Jlm TIL There were black slaveowners in America
v1JR4 TIL one of the most well-known and robust hypotheses linking household income and ecology, the luxury effect, suggests that urban biodiversity, and plant diversity in particular, is positively correlated with neighborhood wealth. This is particularly pronounced in arid ecoregions and biomes.
9VoB TIL that the urban legend of carrots giving night vision was invented as a cover-up by the British RAF in WWII. They were able to shoot down German planes at night using radar; rather than letting the enemy know about their technology, they claimed it was carrots that gave the gunners night vision