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TIL that Venus Fly Traps only grow in a small area of the American Carolina.

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D16rP TIL we can’t see atoms under an ordinary microscope because atoms are smaller than the wavelength of visible light. The smallest thing we can see with visible light contains 10 billion atoms.
DaXp TIL a previously owned black slave was asked to calculate the number of seconds in 70 years, 17 days and 12 hours in order to prove equality in intelligence between blacks and whites. Not only did he accomplish the feat in 1.5 minutes, but he included the leap years in his calculations.
a87Go TIL a castle built over 800 years ago was briefly occupied by medieval crusaders. A latrine containing 30 years worth of castle excrement revealed that the folks there were malnourished & infested with worms. The worms associated with eating unwashed vegetables fertilized with human feces
R7g09 TIL that the worst building collapse in history killed 1100 in 2013. The building owner had bribed many official and investigators to conceal the many irregularities during construction. In the resulting trial, the owner was given just six months bail.
N0QQ TIL that, due to its isolation, a third of the plant life on the island of Socotra (Yemen) is found nowhere else on the planet. It has been described as “most alien-looking place on Earth”.