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TIL Plants can “hear” the sound of running water through pipes in the ground—they will actually grow towards the pipe, eventually bursting through it.

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e0xKD TIL that in 1982 Jim Rice saved a 4 year old boys life. The boy was hit in the face by a foul ball and Rice knew it would take several minutes for the ballparks EMS to get to the boy. He immediately sprinted into the stands, picked up the boy, and ran him into the dugout to the team doctor.
gMBJy TIL in 2005 Manhattan was home to both the lowest-income ($9,320 household income) and the highest-income ($188,697 household income) census tract in the USA.
NVnQ TIL Gmail first launched on April 1st, 2004. It was widely assumed the service was an April Fools Day joke!
nXrY TIL That more than 50% of the US internet traffic is carried by Northern Virginia’s data centers.
my9v TIL Roald Dahl wrote screenplays for two Ian Fleming novels, You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang