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TIL According to a study on Academy Award speeches, Steven Spielberg has been thanked more than God

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9wLPM TIL that asteroid PT5 will be the mini-moon from Sept 29th - Nov '24
grj9X TIL that maggot therapy is a medical practice used to clean wounds and promote healing by using live maggots to eat dead tissue
l75L1 TIL there was a group that created a sperm bank exclusively containing the semen of Nobel Prize winners, hoping to selectively give birth to the next generation of geniuses.
aw0P9 TIL flow is the mental state in which a person is completely absorbed in an activity, resulting in a loss of their sense of space and time.
KORB6 TIL pineapples are actually in a proto-carnivorous plant family called bromeliads. Water trapped in their crowns supports thriving mini-ecosystems, whose residents and their droppings are absorbed for nutrients (not energy) through their leaves, as most plants can actually do.