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TIL there are fewer than 33,000 Venus flytraps living in the wild, and they’re all in North Carolina.

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kJY7 TIL Andrew Carnegie would be worth a net total of $298.3 billion dollars in today’s currency, and believed that it was the rich’s duty to distribute their wealth to benevolent causes. He himself gave more than 4 billion away to charities and funded over 3,000 libraries.
mVJx TIL that Orbit gum was originally the low-quality substitute made by the Wrigley Company due to rationing during WWII. Only soldiers got Juicy Fruit.
wLyRW TIL on 9/11 one stairwell within the South Tower remained accessible after impact. Obscured by smoke and fire, most above the impact zone believed the stairs destroyed and headed to the roof hoping for a helicopter rescue. Only four people among them realized the stairs were accessible and escaped.
JdJ4 TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson used to troll guests in his car by driving into a lake whilst pretending that the brakes were failing – the car was, secretly, an amphibious vehicle.
WkdK8 TIL in WW2 American soldiers were instructed to temper prejudice against black soldiers when stationed in the UK as race relations were much better there.