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TIL our ears and noses continue to "grow" as we age, but not due to our physiology. Instead, it is gravity which is responsible for pulling the cartilage of our ears and noses down, stretching the surrounding skin, which we perceive as growth

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xVk1b TIL the Horn shark lays conical shaped eggs with a spiral flange running around the outside, which enables the female to wedge it into a crevice, making it difficult for predators to access.
d8mEE TIL Tommy James and the Shondells declined an invitation to perform at the Woodstock festival, because James' secretary put it to him as "Yeah, listen, there's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field."
9J8Q TIL that spiders can be affected by different drugs, like marijuana and LSD, which shows in their web-making. This phenomenon has been studied by NASA.
xV1b1 TIL: If you stand in any particular spot on Earth, you will experience a total solar eclipse on average about once every 375 years
J1wn8 TIL The scientific name for the famous Corpse Flower (a very large flowering plant that blooms only once every 7-10 years and releases an unbearable scent of feces and rotting flesh) is Amorphophallus titanum, which in Latin translates roughly to "giant, shapeless dick."