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TIL: On September 15 1989, NASA published a comprehensive report on house plants that are best for cleaning indoor air pollution

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En9X TIL that apes that have been taught sign language have answered our questions, but no ape has ever asked a question.
e9Kb TIL that in one of the “Apocrypha” scriptures that was part of the New Testament and taught by the Church until 1563, Paul the Apostle persuaded God to give everyone in Hell a relaxing day off every Sunday, even going so far as cooling up the weather
E1DPW TIL that in 2005, Houston was struck by Hurricane Rita, which resulted in 3.7m people evacuating the area. The evacuation caused a traffic jam that spanned 100 miles, lasted days, and killed dozens of people. Hurricane Rita then ended up changing course and only dealt Houston a glancing blow.
BK7r TIL when humans are embryos, the first thing we do is form into a doughnut. The doughnut hole becomes our entire digestive tract.
XE9y6 TIL elephants rarely get cancer because they have extra copies of two cancer-fighting genes: P53, which hunts for cells with miscopied DNA, and LIF6, which obliterates the mutated cells before they can form a tumor.