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TIL that there is a tree species that is able to 'walk' by changing its old roots to new ones.

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mxO0y TIL Alfred Nobel, of the Nobel Prize lost his brother to an accident at his lab. They were working with liquid nitrogen and attempting to create a more stable explosive. Nobel was able to complete his research after the accident and invented dynamite.
XE0w8 TIL that 40% of the buildings in Manhattan could not be built today. If made today, the buildings would be shorter and less dense due to the zoning code.
R5rb4 TIL that Penguins, Chimpanzees and Capuchin monkeys practice prositution
j647p TIL cazu martzu is a cheese that has living maggots in it. If you don't chew enough the maggots can be your intestines. It is banned for obvious reasons but the demand for the maggot cheese is so large there is a black market that brings in 2-3 million euros annually
oBYYA TIL in 1999 that Royal Caribbean was accused of dumping oil and was caught providing falsified documents about it to the US Coast Guard. They then argued they were outside US jurisdiction since they were incorporated in Liberia (their HQ was/is in Miami)