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TIL There’s a plant in Australia that can kill you if you touch it!

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Me54a TIL that besides white, cotton can grow in shades of green, blue, red, brown, and tan
NeRe TIL that 550,000 female fetuses a year are selectively aborted in India in a practice referred to as Female Foeticide.
9Yyw7 TIL that Thomas Jefferson, the third US president, invented the swivel chair.
4XM4N TIL The Addams Family was given their name by the cartoonist who created them, Charles Addams
DQ0Wg TIL that as a student growing up in Ukraine, Maryna Viazovska (right) fell in love with competitive math Olympiads. In high school, she fell just short of being able to represent Ukraine at the International Math Olympiad. In 2022, she won a Fields Medal.