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TIL that capers are flowers!

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E1ow7 TIL about Soong Mei-Ling, the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen and the wife of Chiang Kai-shek. Her life traversed three centuries, and she lived through pretty much all the forms of government that China has tried - emperor, republic, communism, dictatorship.
Jy7V TIL in 2005, MySpace was in talks to buy Facebook, but rejected Mark Zuckerberg’s asking price of $75 million as too expensive.
N0Ge TIL that during audience testing for the 2005 movie “Good Night, and Good Luck” a common complaint was that the actor portraying Joseph McCarthy was over the top, not believable. The film actually used stock footage of McCarthy himself.
yQMmM TIL that the US is a more unequal society than ancient Rome.
Z85AG TIL that maggots can jump by curling their bodies, sticking themselves together and then pumping body fluids into one part until they unstick and explode upwards from the force