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TIL Jagadish Chandra Bose found that plants were visibly reactive to all manner of stimuli: flashes of light, changes in temperature, plucking, pricking, screaming. Plants became numbed by drugs and drunk from alcohol.

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woGWJ TIL Peter Davidson who played the fifth Dr Who, and Sandra Dickinson who played Trillian in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy have a daughter, Georgia Tennant, who portrayed the daughter of the tenth Doctor Who, and later married the actor who played him.
d8XYj TIL Fearful-Avoidant adults are torn between a desire for intimacy and a fear of sharing their emotions. They want close relationships, but have trouble trusting others
VM060 TIL The USS Niagara was intentionally sunk in 1820 for preservation, and raised 93 years later for restoration.
yQRma TIL about Sister Doris Engelhard of Mallersdorf Abbey, the last nun working in Europe as a brewmaster. The abbey brews about 80,000 gallons of beer a year, all of which is consumed locally. The beer is untreated and needs to be drunk while it is still fresh.
wL006 TIL that NASA spaces flights have had wake up songs for the astronauts starting with the gemini program, the day 2 song for the SpaceX flight is “planetary caravan” by Black Sabbath.