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TIL: Every day during peak season, 30-35 jumbo jets loaded with cut flowers leave Columbia. Most land in Miami.

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691MQ TIL: João Teixeira de Faria is a self proclaimed medium and "psychic surgeon" able to perform remote and invisible surgeries. He's been on James Randi, Oprah, ABC news, etc. He made $10 million in 2014 selling cures. Many patients died and he is now in jail for 489 years for numerous crimes.
eAYE TIL due to the fact that the US Navy refused to help in the production of Crimson Tide, the producers couldn’t get footage of a submarine diving underwater. Their solution was to wait outside of Pearl Harbor and follow and film the first submarine to leave.
k6m5 TIL that when meeting with Pele, Ronald Reagan said “My name is Ronald Reagan, I’m the President of the United States of America. But you don’t need to introduce yourself, because everyone knows who Pele is.”
NXdR1 TIL some flies cope with having tiny stomachs by regurgitating food into vomit bubbles to dry it out a bit and reduce the volume, and then swallowing it again before eating more; other flies release digestive juices to liquefy food into a predigested slurry they can swallow without teeth
Bgnnb TIL that apple had one of their sounds be named sosumi (pronounced so sue me) because apple corps kept suing them for defying their rules.