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TIL that sunflowers follow the fibonacci sequence

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R7Oy6 TIL in 2018 a French historical theme park named Puy du Fou trained six Rooks, a member of the crow family, to pick up cigarette butts and trash. When one of them takes a piece of trash to a special box the device dispenses bird food.
BgQ9d TIL that the author of "The Last Ringbearer", a retelling of "Lord of the Rings" from Mordor's point of view, also wrote "The Gospel of Afranius", a retelling of the New Testament from an atheistic point of view
VB7D TIL, Bon Scott of ACDC fame was in the band, The Valentines, famous for the song “Build Me Up Buttercup”
xVkRB TIL one theory why the human sense of smell is worse than our closest ancestors (monkeys and apes)is that since the start of agriculture, humans have been forced to live in crowded tents and huts with many other people, so we evolved a weaker sense of smell to better deal with it.
69vkX TIL That stench gas alarm systems alert miners to danger when audible alarms may not be heard.