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TIL Trees are not a taxonomic group, but a variety of plants that independently evolved woody trunks

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wLnOW TIL of Paige Hunter, a UK young woman who has prevented at least 6 suicides by tying over 40 handwritten notes of hope to a bridge infamous for suicides.
NX5kJ TIL about honeydew honey, a kind of honey produced by bees that feed on honeydew - the secretions of aphids - instead of nectar
oRR6E TIL Drake tried to have his character rewritten and healed to be removed from the wheelchair, but backed off when the writer of Degrassi confronted him.
W4jo TIL that in EverQuest, the sale of valuable items for both in-game platinum and for actual money allows exchange rates to be worked out. The BBC reported in 2002 that EQ was the 77th richest country in the world, between Russia and Bulgaria, with a higher GDP per capita than both China and India.
yQkew TIL that magenta does not exist in the visible light spectrum and does not have a corresponding wavelength, so your brain interprets it as "not green"