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TIL that the last surviving captive of the last slave ship to bring African slaves to the US was interviewed in the 1930s

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1MZ4 TIL the fanged pitcher plant and the carpenter ant have a mutualistic relationship whereby the plant’s stem provides a home for small colonies of ants who in turn keep the chemistry of the pitcher’s liquid balanced by removing large insects from inside, preventing the liquid from spoiling.
ep6N4 TIL the FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform) is an ocean research vessel that can flip from horizontal to a 90° vertical floating position like a buoy. When vertical it's imperviable to wave motion and can withstand 80ft swells.
ADOnl TIL NASA is using automated computer design which uses evolutionary algorithm that mimics Darwinian evolution to design antenna for radio communication which produces unusual looking but very high efficiency antennas called Evolved Antenna
R7KB9 TIL that instead of portraits, rich Filipinos during the 1800s commissioned artists to creatively form letters of their patron's name into different human figures, animals, plants, and other objects.
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