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TIL dinosaurs were around before flowering plants existed.

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new57 TIL that the Bucket Orchid flower attracts orchid bees with a scent, & traps them in their “bucket”, the only escape is through a space where the flower grips the bee and glues pollen packets to their back to produce more bucket orchids.
d8LZE TIL when Thoreau lived “alone” at Walden Pond the woods around him were actually full of people, mostly former slaves and poor people who had been forced to live in the margins of society.
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