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TIL scientists use sunflowers to clean up nuclear radiation

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xwK1 TIL how Oskar Schindler - in addition to saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during WW2 by hiring them to work in his factory - purposely recalibrated the machines to produce bogus artillery shells for the German war effort.
5VgK8 TIL Corelle's dishware before 2005 has very HIGH amounts of lead in it
DQxVP TIL that in 1945 Japan attacked the US mainland with hydrogen-filled fire balloons killing 6 US citizens
v7d8 TIL that a gene mutation allows a very small number of people to naturally sleep four hours per night, with no effects on mental or physical health. This would be evolution.
Brdjk TIL Eddie Murphy was only 22 years old when he performed the iconic Delirious stand-up set