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TIL There is a flower named "Blue Dicks" Dichelostemma Capitatum

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Aeen TIL There is a vault in the arctic that stores over 860k different varieties of food crop seeds as an insurance policy for the world’s food supply
DQ1Ee TIL that in 1965, the painter Roman Opałka had the idea of representing the passing of time by painting numbers: he painted a 1, then a 2, then a 3, etc, and continued for the rest of his life. The last number he painted before he died in 2011 was 5607249.
VBQ8Z TIL that e-bike use is increasing in Amish communities as an alternative to a horse and buggy
rNRbd TIL the famed Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group won the Air Force's first Top Gun-style competition but kept it secret until a historian uncovered it in 2005
NXv0b TIL that the first ever Harley Davidson was built in 1903, and a tomato can was used as its carburetor.