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TIL that the Corpse Flower is incredibly pungent, and only blooms for 24 hours every 10 years.

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69XmZ TIL: The specific reason is currently not known, but R. funebris is attracted to recently painted surfaces and can be found resting on the paint.
6E0J7 TIL of "Freddish" - Mr. Rogers' carefully crafted set of rules for talking to children, designed to keep kids from taking things too literally or becoming unnecessarily scared
QplL TIL in the 50s a white man disguised himself as a black man and traveled to some of the most racially segregated parts of America. He found blatant acts of racism almost everywhere he went, and published a book about his experiences called Black Like Me.
b97yN TIL a 64-year-old Sydney man filed 19,600 noise complaints about airport noise over a 12 month period. He averaged approximately one complaint for every 20 minutes the airport was open.
XEOaP TIL that prisoners in Auschwitz concentration camp attacked the SS guards with stones, axes, and makeshift hand grenades and killed 3 Nazi SS guards, one of whom was burned alive by the prisoners in the oven of Crematorium II.