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TIL of the Middlemist Red Camilla, the rarest flower on earth. Only two known specimens exist: a garden in New Zealand and a greenhouse in the UK.

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wLMm6 TIL that actor and creator of Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, was supposed to be on one of the planes hijacked during the 9/11 terror attacks, but missed the flight because he was hungover.
R5pMl TIL, the "Mayor"/owner of Hell, Michigan was shot in Vietnam, mistaken for dead and put in a body bag, even though he was still alive.
Qvop TIL John Quincy Adams was the first American president to grant a woman reporter an interview (Anne Royall) and did so because she sat on his clothes while he bathed nude in the Potomac River.
DQeVJ TIL that the APA declassified homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973
5YeWP TIL that when soils are saturated with water, in-ground pools are susceptible to float out of the ground after they are fully or partially emptied of water, otherwise known as a "popped pool".