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TIL scientists use sunflowers to clean up nuclear radiation

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epPOg TIL Cute aggression refers to the overwhelming urge to squeeze, pinch, or bite something extremely cute, typically without any desire to cause harm.
8a8VK TIL the modern drinking straw was developed to prevent tainting the flavor of a mint julip which happened when using a grass straw
9YJ7B TIL Willie Francis survived the electric chair because the person that set it up was drunk. He unsuccessfully argued to the US Supreme Court that executing him again was double jeopardy. He died in the electric chair a year later.
5Y5Vr TIL that the half life of Bismuth is over a billion times the estimated age of the universe
7kJp TIL that 95% of nuclear weapons are owned by the USA and Russia