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TIL that Arches National Park in Utah has a rock column known as The Phallus

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8eLW8 TIL an artificial heart is only temporary, implanted to keep patients alive until they can receive a heart transplant
0wjQy TIL that, in June 2020, a team of researchers in Japan used a drone that shot pollen-dusted soap bubbles to pollinate a pear orchard; 95% of the flowers bore fruit, which was the same success rate as hand-pollinating
vP4Jr TIL A monument in Kyoto contains severed noses from 38000 Koreans and 30000 Chinese from a Japanese invasion in the 1590s. No Japanese textbook mentioned it until the 80s, after a publisher resisted pressure from the ministry of education to use a softer tone and praise the invasion leader Hideyoshi
9Yv9B TIL there is roughly as much vitamin C in one ounce of narwhal skin as there is in one ounce of oranges.
R50O4 [TIL] that there is an Herbicide that will turn Male Frogs into Female Frogs