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TIL: Due to its proximity to the Gulf Stream and the Gulf of Mexico giving it a mild tropical climate year round, Key West Florida is the only city in the Continental US that's never had recorded frost.

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4X4JX TIL Cyanide pills were distributed to audience members of the last Berlin Philharmonic concert on 12 April 1945 as Allied forces approached Berlin and the surrender of Germany seemed imminent.
b94oZ TIL that boomerangs used for hunting are not designed for a curved return flight, but to fly straight and hit their target. Returning boomerangs are at most used to frighten birds into movement.
nx07 TIL that One-Eyed Willie’s pirate ship in the Goonies was constructed without the kids allowed to see it, hoping to get a real reaction from the cast for the first take. But when they rolled and revealed it, the gang was so shocked and started cursing up a storm. The scene had to be re-shot.
1MZ4 TIL the fanged pitcher plant and the carpenter ant have a mutualistic relationship whereby the plant’s stem provides a home for small colonies of ants who in turn keep the chemistry of the pitcher’s liquid balanced by removing large insects from inside, preventing the liquid from spoiling.
BM8k TIL: FIFTEEN YEARS AGO: Before Da Vinci Code.. Before Angels & Demons.. Dan Brown warned us of the NSA in 1998