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TIL Maine’s state flower is a pinecone.

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b9vP4 TIL venomous and poisonous are different. If you bite it and die, it is poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it is venomous.
NXY4J TIL Baldur's Gate 3 is the first video game ever to win all five major Game of the Year awards (Golden Joystick, The Game, D.I.C.E., Game Developers Choice, & British Academy Games).
wvKo TIL of the US Supreme Court decision Buck v. Bell where the Court approved the practice of forced sterilization of citizens the state deemed unfit, including the intellectually disabled, in order to to improve the human race by eliminating “defectives” from the gene pool.
6EoaQ TIL that the 1988 sequel, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes happened because of a Muppet Babies episode
x6XPb TIL that babies prefer speech sounds over other types of non-language sounds (i.e. music) even from birth. So, humans begin their language acquisition with a bias for listening to speech.