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7rV6P TIL that fully grown Sunflowers don't always face the Sun. The property of facing the Sun is observed only in the young flower heads and it stops as the flower matures. Mature Sunflowers generally face the east.
8awvG TIL that a high school teacher wrote a set of equations, together called the Batman Equation, that form the Batman signature shape when drawn.
69YDX TIL: The most sampled song in the world is "Amen, Brother" by the Winstons. A seven second drum break known as the "Amen Break" has been used in thousands of songs
9Y1br Today I learned that Elvis Costello went by the pseudonym “Napoleon Dynamite” for his 1986 LP “Blood and Chocolate.” Jared Hess, Director of the 2004 film claims there is no connection.
X0eKR TIL: to clear land for logging in Canada, forestry workers, often students and junior rangers, spent weeks at a time as human markers holding red, helium-filled balloons on fishing lines while low-flying planes sprayed Agent Orange on the brush and the boys below. "We were saturated in chemicals"