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TIL Hens can spontaneously become roosters

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8e6yK TIL that the Venus Flytrap is native only to a 90-mile inland area around Wilmington, NC, so they've issued a license plate to help raise money for its preservation.
GYm17 TIL: James Doohan, who played Star Trek's Scotty, was a lieutenant in WWII, was wounded during his participation in D-Day, and was once called the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force."
x6aK7 TIL I learned film composer Hanz Zimmer was in the electro pop band the Buggles. Their song Video Killed the Radio was the first song aired on MTV in Aug 1981.
XE6d8 TIL that from The Munsters, the "Munster Koach" was a hot rod built on a lengthened 1926 Ford Model T chassis with a custom hearse body. It was 18 feet long and cost almost $20,000 to build. The "Drag-u-la" was the combination of an illegally acquired coffin and a Ford Hot Rod.
xGg5 TIL That in the Vietnamese version of Cinderella at the end, Cinderella cut up her step sister, put the remains into a jar of food and sent it to her Step Mother to eat, she enjoyed it until she found her skull at the bottom of the jar and instantly died of shock.