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TIL scientists use sunflowers to clean up nuclear radiation

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wLwo7 TIL Half of European men share King Tut’s DNA
R5WR6 TIL the largest landowner in the world is King Charles, who owns 6.6billion acres (roughly 1/6 of the entire world land area), which is more then the next 24 largest landowners combined.
9YJXM TIL The creator of Animal Crossing was inspired to make a game about friendship, family, and community after experiencing loneliness upon moving to a new city.
rRjre TIL: The reason we have knee caps and not elbow caps is because knees are under a lot of stress from walking upright, and the kneecap is there to help maintain the knee’s movement and ability to flex in the correct manner
xVoV0 TIL that the Ivory Billed Woodpecker has been believed to be extinct since the early 1900's. In 1932, however, in an attempt to refute these claims, a Louisiana state legislator and an attorney shot and killed one of the last of the birds and brought the remains to their local wildlife office.