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TIL that the Venus flytrap naturally grows in very few areas in the Carolinas, so park rangers have to keep most of their grow sites a secret to keep them safe from poachers.

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lgm7 TIL in 1925, Henry Ford told the NYT that ethyl alcohol is “the fuel of the future”. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.“
X0L7D TIL that the pretzel’s iconic shape were created to look like arms in prayer, with the 3 holes representing the Holy Trinity. It was an integral food for Catholics and a popular snack during Lent.
VMG84 TIL That John Snow was an early pioneer of epidemiology and used diligent research and contact tracing to identify the source of a cholera epidemic in Soho, London. Officials initially rejected his findings but a detractor eventually published findings confirming Snow's assertions.
KYlmQ TIL: The Cia Cia language, an Austroniasian language spoken in Buton, an island in Indonesia, is written in the Korean alphabet (Hangul).
X4wQ TIL in the final episode of the cartoon Tom & Jerry,both Tom and Jerry commit suicide