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TIL that sunflowers follow the fibonacci sequence

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NXGYb TIL Speed Racer was based off the 1964 Elvis film "Viva Las Vegas". Tatsuo Yoshida, creator of Mach GoGoGo, stated that this movie was his primary inspiration.
16vo7 TIL that in 1996 a woman by the name of Georgiana Doerschuck ran for President. Her entire campaign platform was on banning computers. She received a measly 140 votes in the New Hampshire Primary.
e0ePk TIL that a mass grave was found in Ireland containing the bones of 796 infants.
5YdWB TIL if you won the lottery in Australia, you had to go public with your win, turning into an overnight celebrity. This was until the abduction & murder of Graeme Thorne, 8, whose family won the lottery leading to Graeme being abducted for ransom but killed.
mOaM TIL: Before Nazis used the salute commonly referred to as the “Hitler salute,” Americans did it while saying the Pledge of Allegiance