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TIL Louis XIX was King of France for 20 minutes.
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TIL Einstein once taught physics at a Historically Black College/University in Pennsylvania because he was passionately anti-racist
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TIL Although not audible to the human ear, the secret voices of plants have revealed that cucumbers scream when they are sick, and flowers whine when their leaves are cut. There's also evidence that plants can hear themselves being eaten.
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TIL of Schachs D'Amor, a 15th century Catalan poem that uses a chess game as an allegory for love. That fictional chess game was based on the oldest real chess game from a similar time period.
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TIL that Guardian of the Galaxy Groot was one of Stan Lee’s first creations at Marvel (and originally a villain)predating Spider-Man and most of the Avengers, including the Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor
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TIL Whale poop used to be an ingredient in ice cream