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TIL Mistletoe is a parasitic plan. It absorbs nutrients and water by penetrating branches high up on trees.

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m15aM TIL: Andrew Bonar Law is the only Canadian to have served as Prime Minister of the UK. He was born in New-Brunswick which was a British colony at the time.
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wL7aY TIL wath the Siberian Corridor was. It was a strip of steppe from Mongolia to the east of Europe, used by nomadic population in their movements from east to west. Huns, Turks and Mongols all went through there. The corridor was closed by the Russian Empire expansion toward Siberia.