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TIL That A Woman Successfully Sued The NYC Transit Authority For $9,900,000 After Laying On The Subway Tracks And Getting Hit By A Train

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a8dao TIL that cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and many other vegetables are all the same plant, just bred to accentuate different features
QJ1e9 TIL of the "Rihanna Curse," which saw countries like the U.K., New Zealand, and Romania experiencing the worst storms in their history at the same time that "Umbrella" topped each country's charts. Once the song got bumped from the top spot, the weather subsided.
7DwL TIL scientists attached stilts to the legs of ants to prove that ants return to their nests by counting their steps. The ants with stilts overshot their nest by roughly 50% due to the new length of their steps.
xK85 TIL when a NatGeo Photographer tried to photograph a leopard seal, the seal tried to feed him penguins for 4 days, eventually getting panicked when he wouldn’t eat them.
D14QD TIL - WALL-E (the Pixar film,) is dedicated to Justin Wright. Justin was 12 when he had a heart transplant and his make-a-wish was to visit Pixar. He survived the transplant and later became an animator at Pixar. He died of a massive heart attack 3 months before its release.