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TIL Viagra dissolved in water can make cut flowers stand up straight for up to a week beyond their natural lifespan.

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VM9jQ TIL Margaret Ann Neve was the first recorded female super-centenarian and second validated human to live to 110 years old (1792-1903).
4XD55 TIL for his PhD thesis, Ilya Bobvroskiy took a helicopter to a remote Russian bear infested ravine, rappelled down. Found fossils from the edicarian, & analysed cholesterol preserved in the ancient rocks. Science named his work amongst the top 10 breakthroughs of 2018.
GY9OQ TIL of Chiune Sugihara, who was a Japanese diplomat who saved 6,000 Jews during WWII by issuing them transit visas, risking his own career and life to save others.
BrGBW TIL due to BBC's policy against product placement they couldn't play the original version of "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'", and instead had DJs shout "Radio Times!", the title of BBC's own magazine, over the song's original chorus words "Rolling Stone".
oBZoL TIL that an art collector once kept a statue of Buddha in his home unaware that inside was a 1,000-year-old mummified monk.