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TIL Iran carries out more sex change operations than any other nation in the world except for Thailand

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r984 TIL When an insect tries to eat the leaves of a pineapple, the leaves secrete a digestive enzyme which kills the insect, and then the leaves absorbs the insect for nutrition.
oeAL TIL that Andre Geim won the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on using magnetism to levitate a frog. 10 years later, his experiments regarding graphene won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This makes him the only ever recipient of both the Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes.
PVnJ TIL that there is a lightbulb that has been burning since 1901
XoZj TIL that Gordon Ramsay challenged a prison cook to an onion cutting competition. The inmate won. Ramsay immediately offered him a job at one of his restaurants upon his release
JY6Bl TIL Lions may sleep a full 24 hours straight