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TIL Americans have a distinctive lean and it’s one of the first things the CIA trains operatives to fix.

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b6a7 TIL there’s an open source solar energy collector that can be build from scrap for well under $100, using basic tools and skills
4k8m5 TIL that Poppy flowers became associated with the military after a Canadian poet was inspired by a field of poppies near a mass grave in Belgium folliwing World War 1. The poppies grew there after the bombing and trench warfare churned up the soil, exposing dormant poppy seeds to the sunlight.
OoomY Everyone got mad at the Germans.
je8j TIL human DNA is 50% the same as bananas
OoWDX TIL Rick Wakeman started to wear capes onstage in order to hide the weird way he moved while operating footpedals, which a journalist said made him look like a demented spider. In some countries now, a show organiser will write into his contract that he must wear a cape