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TIL some plants aren't autotrophs and don't photosynthesize, instead they steal nutrients from other plants or fungi, or they get food from dead matter like fungi!

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beWN TIL the “Screwdriver” cocktail got its name from American petroleum engineers in Saudi Arabia who secretly added vodka to small cans of orange juice and stirred the mixture with their screwdrivers.
L89m TIL the Satanic Temple is a religion that worships Satan mainly so that they can horrify Christians by claiming religious exemptions championed by Christian groups, like school prayer
nWnM7 TIL the tower Michel de Montaigne wrote most of his Essays in, and the library that was once covered in the paintings, are accessible to visitors. Some maxims in the Essays are still visible today
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1alZ8 TIL babies are born without proper knee caps. Instead they have cartilage on their knees that eventually hardens into bone. The lack of boney knee caps makes them more flexible during birth and while learning to crawl and walk.