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TIL of the “suicide palm” recently discovered in Madagascar that flowers itself to death. The plant grows for decades before exploding with nectar-rich blossoms that deplete the plant’s nutrients and cause it to die

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gDGA TIL that, largely due to Oliver Stone’s JFK, all existing assassination-related documents will become publicly available by next year.
WWl9 TIL in 1777 Morocco was the first nation to recognize the independence of the United States of America
nWJjG TIL the Woodstock 1999 festival was so ill-prepared for the crowd size that portable toilets overflowed and there was no shade from the heat. Attendees started playing in mud to cool off unaware it was contaminated by waste leaking from toilets leading to many cases of trench mouth and trench foot.
lW7G TIL the ex-founder of Blackwater PMC has been quietly building a mercenary army in the Arabian desert since 2011
M748b TIL that there are ethnic groups in the African Congo Basin that do not have a word for and are confused by the concept of masturbation.