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TIL Venus Flytraps are only native to a region within a 120km (75mi) radius to Wilmington, North Carolina, USA, as opposed to a tropical region.

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lodwG TIL that David Dunbar Buick was a plumber who invented the process for adhering enamel to cast iron, clearing the way for cast iron bathtubs in homes. He would later start the Buick Motor Company
mPER TIL the 13th century ‘Latin Book of the Civilized Man’ included such advice as 'If there is something you do not want people to know, do not tell it to your wife.’
woxL8 TIL about Carlos Kaiser, a Brazilian con artist, who made a career playing for 10 different professional football teams (including three clubs where he was able to get a contract for a second stint after a break elsewhere) without ever making a senior appearance for any of them.
gje7 TIL that in Quake III Arena, when developers needed to calculate x^(-½), one used a piece of code and the hexadecimal number 0x5f3759df to calculate it about 4 times faster than floating-point division. It was so strange another developer commented in the code “what the fuck?”
wLvy7 TIL that a dog’s behaviour changes when it senses the pregancy of it’s owner (or family member), some dogs become more protective while other dogs become more rebelious, chewing on items or peeing inside the home