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TIL flowers have glands

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Zp0mG TIL that in 2007, two Cuban boxers, Erislandy Lara and Guillermo Rigondeaux, deserted the Cuban delegation during the Pan-American Games. The Brazilian authorities arrested and deported them back to Cuba, and in 2008 and 2009 both of them successfully defected to Mexico.
JgNk TIL All mammals have roughly the same lifespan at 1.5 billion heartbeats. An elephant lives longer than a mouse because it’s heart beats slower.
Abjd TIL the oldest known song dates from 1400BC
Yn8r TIL there is a gang of Serbian thieves named The Pink Panthers who have pulled off Mission Impossible styled heists netting over EUR 300 Million in jewels. Their leader, Dragan Mikic, escaped prison by scaling a wall while the Pink Panthers shot at guards with machine guns
exoL TIL A surprise inspection of a men’s prison in Acapulco unearthed 100 plasma TVs, 2 sacks of marijuana, 2 peacocks, 100 cockerels… and 25 women