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TIL some plants make extrafloral nectaries (non-flower parts with nectar in) to attract insects that help protect them

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7JYr TIL during an interview about the casting of Jean-Luc Picard, Gene Roddenberry was asked by a reporter, “Surely they would have cured baldness by the 24th century?” Roddenberry answered, “In the 24th century, they wouldn’t care.”
jNGeQ TIL This Yu-Gi-Oh! card references the idea of "Absolute 0", which is 0 Kelvin. At such a low temperature life cannot exist, which is why the ability of the card is to destroy all monsters your opponent controls when it leaves the field
QJQMX [TIL] Mimolette is a French cheese with living mites on the surface, which is why it's banned in America.
xVryB TIL of super recogniser's. They can remember 80% of the faces they have seen, and have been known to outperform computers. Some are employed by the British intelligence/police. Two of them was used to identify the suspects in the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in 2018 just by reviewing CCTV
a88PA TIL about The Shootout on Ash Street - That Time Army Rangers Got in a Gunfight with the Crips Street Gang