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TIL Many adult Acacias form phyllodes (winged leaf stems that act as leaves) rather than true leaves, which improves water conservation in the adult plants.

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YglG TIL Lord Nelson, one of the greatest British naval commanders of all time suffered from chronic sea sickness throughout his career.
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nJRP TIL Gandhi was obsessed with poop and enemas. He addressed his live-in maids everyday with the sentence “Have you had a good bowel movement this morning, sisters?”
ZOdR TIL despite being dead, Agatha Christie was able to save a life in 1977 when a nurse who’d read her book ‘The Pale Horse’ that described thallium poisoning so well that the nurse could diagnose a baby the doctors couldn’t. Thallium was found in the baby, and she was given treatments, saving her