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TIL cheetahs don't roar but they meow.

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gr604 TIL German Chocolate Cake is not German in origin, but is named for an English-American chocolate maker Samuel German
VMeEQ TIL plants often grow more after being watered with rainwater compared to regular water. Lightning in the atmosphere produces bio-available organic compounds (nitrates and ammonium, found in fertilizers) from the inert Nitrogen gas found in air, which then get dissolved in raindrops
p81aA TIL people are making Money Right under Our Noses on YouTube (Just found out about this)
4nbb TIL In 2009, Wikipedia banned The Church of Scientology from editing any articles.
yQAm8 TIL of Herman Perry, an African-American WWII soldier who killed an officer and escaped into the Burmese jungle. Black soldiers were treated harshly and he had already been confined before. He won over and lived with a Naga tribe before he was found, then escaped again, then caught again and hung.