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TIL Peruvian lilies are false lilies and aren’t toxic to cats

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x6NGg TIL Venus Fly Traps grow their flowers far away to avoid killing their pollinators
l7ema TIL that Peter Jackson has a perfect replica of Bag End in his basement. You go down to the wine cellar and pull a bottle which opens a door, then there’s a long corridor into a mock torture chamber. Then you pull a book in a bookcase, the bookcase opens, and you walk into his perfect Bag End
5V6dr TIL the first Black quarterback to appear in the Big 10 Conference and the modern NFL was named “Willie Thrower.”
oR1ZA TIL in the pre-classical era, the ancient Greeks condoned piracy as a viable profession; it apparently was widespread and "regarded as an entirely honourable way of making a living". References are made to its perfectly normal occurrence in many texts including in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
BgaEK TIL Pan-Am's first Round-the-World flight was unplanned. The flight's return journey via Hawaii was cancelled after Pearl Harbor was attacked, and with the help of Auckland's library system, a route was plotted to return to America via Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Congo, and Brazil.