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TIL Maine’s state flower is a pinecone.

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EGrP TIL that 94% of people who live in Minneapolis are within a 10 minute walk to a park.
V0Lm TIL John Adams felt that though independence and a free government sounded appealing in theory, he feared “that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.”
gYBL TIL: No other species, including our own, is responsible for the loss of as many human lives each year as mosquitoes
X0aNk TIL the Lord Howe Island stick insect, once thought extinct due to rats from a shipwreck, was rediscovered in 2001 and successfully bred in captivity, saving the species from extinction.
ea4L TIL that there were “Starvation Cells” in Auschwitz. The Starvation Cell was very simple - you were thrown into an empty cell, the door was locked, and you were left inside until you starved to death.