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TIL: Plant seeds “know” to grow upwards by sensing gravity. When planted in a spinning wheel, their roots will be tricked by the centrifugal force and grow outwards from the soil

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b6674 TIL that on the entire 4300 mile length of the Amazon river there are no bridges
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4Xe6g TIL in an experiment where subjects were told to allocate funds to other subjects, they would always favour members of their own group, even though they didn't know who the groupmembers were, had never met them, and had been arbitrarily put into their group.
loOMa TIL There is over 3 million horses in Mongolia, which is larger than the total human population of Mongolia, with 2% of the world’s horse population living in Mongolia.
gMwa7 TIL owning an electric car in Norway grants you free public parking, free ferry rides and the right to drive in bus lanes.