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TIL: Adding viagra to your flowers and plants will make them stand up straight.

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Gnx1 TIL that Salvador Dali used to avoid paying at restaurants by drawing on checks. He knew that the owner would never want to cash such a valuable piece of art.
oA97 TIL that because of a lucky genetic mutation happened in the 18th century, today 38 people in a small town in northern Italy don’t suffer from cholesterol artery-clogging, making them virtually immune to heart disease and strokes. They all smoke, they eat like hell, and they don’t care
QJ5pk TIL until about the ninth week of gestational age the external genitalia of males and females look the same. After this stage, the what ends up being the scrotum raphe (the vertical line on the scrotum on males) grows from the labioscrotal folds which grow in to the labia on females
v1DXD TIL there’s an extremely rare 4-under par score in golf called a “Condor” that is so rare there have only been 4 confirmed instances of them in history
lANV TIL of Hugh O'Flaherty, a priest who saved the lives of 6500 Allied soldiers and Jews during WWII by hiding them in farms, homes and convents. He was a master at disguises and evaded capture by the Gestapo many times earning him the nickname “Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican”.