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TIL plants can sense gravity. Starch filled organelles act like snowglobe particles and settle at bottom of cells, allowing plants to orient themselves.

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oVNA TIL Super-size me creator Morgan Spurlock’s ex wife who was shown in the film as a vegan chef, later revealed that she had been sneaking in meat for years
BVyk TIL that in the ‘60s at the height of the Cold War, the US continuously flew planes carrying nuclear bombs around the world as a precautionary measure in the event of an attack by the USSR. 5 of these planes crashed, and nuclear contamination resulted in at least 2 instances.
x71B TIL that NASA discovered a planet with two suns. AKA Tatooine.
6EJMQ TIL: The Blue Ringed Octopus is both venomous and poisonous thanks to the neurotoxin Tetrodotoxin
VBkOZ TIL Gulf War Syndrome is not related to PTSD, but most likely due to sarin gas exposure