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TIL that sunflowers follow the fibonacci sequence

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R5m48 TIL that Celtic languages were once widely spoken across much of western and central Europe. These languages/cultures slowly succumbed to Roman and Germanic expansion, and today Celtic languages are reduced to Ireland, the UK, and Northwest France.
WVd9 TIL a Titanic II is being built by an Australian billionaire. It will be an exact replica of the first and even serve the same meals.
0wAQL TIL that in 1946 John Boyd Orr, a Scottish scientist, proposed the creation of a World Food Board to repel world hunger and protect global peace. The proposal was rejected as UK and USA refused to support it. As he resigned from his role in the UN, he warned that “food is more than a commodity."
9wVWB TIL the world record for most parachute jumps in a 24-hour period is 640 set by Jay Stokes in 2006.
ADJLd TIL In 1976 Matthew Adam Garber, the boy who played Micheal in Mary Poppins, died at the age of 21, from hepatitis that spread to his pancreas. There have always been rumors that Garber contracted the disease after unsafe drug use, but his family says it was from eating bad meat.