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TIL scientists use sunflowers to clean up nuclear radiation

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VB6yB TIL that there is a series of 24 hour endurance races called the "24 Hours of Lemons" that takes place in the USA and teams are restricted to a budget of $500 per car.
YpjAx TIL that although often thought to be a rare occurrence, a total solar eclipse happens somewhere on earth an average of once every 1.5 years
GAmB7 TIL that Svante Pääbo mapped the DNA of Neanderthals and won the Nobel price. During his attempts, the first DNA sequences obtained came from himself. This helped him understand that contamination was a major problem and allowed him to refine the process and succeed
4QGR TIL The scene in Spiderman (2002) where Peter Parker catches Mary Jane’s tray in the school cafeteria does not have any CGI. The whole thing was actually done by Tobey Maguire himself. It took him 156 takes to get it perfectly.
jRGn TIL that if your second toe is longer than your big toe it is a condition called Morton’s Toe and that some statues, including the Statue of Liberty, have feet sculpted that way.