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TIL Gears have been discovered in an insect. Interlocking cogs evolved in nature long before we invented them. (VIDEO LINK)

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awyVL TIL: Allspice is an actual plant, not a blend of many other spices.
ANWox TIL that New Zealand used to have giant one metre (around 3 feet 4 inch) tall swans.
r9md TIL that Breaking Bad was originally set in Riverside, California but was moved to New Mexico simply due to better tax laws
5kVQ TIL Braveheart has been described as one of the most historically inaccurate modern films. One historian took particular exception to the costumes and compared it to, “a film about Colonial America showing the colonial men wearing 20th century business suits, but with the jackets worn back-to-front”
xVkP7 TIL that at least one person has been killed by a lava lamp. In 2004, Philip Quinn decided to heat his lava lamp on the kitchen stove. The lamp exploded, shooting a shard of glass into his heart and ending his life.