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TIL Due to the plant hormone auxin, tulip stems continue to elongate after they are cut.

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oROM7 TIL newborn babies(both sexes) can lactate because of the mother’s hormones. It’s called neonatal milk or witch’s milk.
6ElPW TIL a "lost" Rodin sculpture worth millions was in plain sight in a New Jersey local council chamber.
OGXXL TIL that on July 13, 1854, the U.S. Navy bombarded and destroyed the Nicaraguan town of Greytown without a single American casualty, in retaliation for insults against an American diplomat and a shipping dispute.
b9RV4 TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the Millennium Prize problems). He later quit his job, turned down the $1 million prize as well as the Fields Medal, and is thought to have withdrawn from the field of mathematics entirely.
v1kRx TIL the pygmy marmoset can can leap 15 feet into the air despite being just 5 inches, that is about 36 times it's own height. Equivalent to a 6 ft human jumping 216 feet into the air.