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TIL that many plant stores hot glue fake flowers onto cactus

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4bK5 TIL there is an island so densley populated with snakes the Brazilian Navy had it quarantined and a biologist said when on the island “you are never more than 3 feet from death.” That island is called Snake Island.
4Xpew TIL the king cobra (Ophiophagus Hannah) is technically not a cobra (doesn't belong to the Naja genus). It's called the king cobra because it kills and eats other cobras.
dA6d TIL the CIA lost a plutonium powered device in the glaciers that birth the Ganges River (Nanda Devi, 25643 ft) trying to spy on Chinese nuclear missile activity. There is still concern regarding the location and integrity of the radioactive material.
aKjb TIL that in 1988, Iran began a country-wide purge of political prisoners. People were beaten for missing daily prayers. One woman died after 22 days and 550 lashes, and the authorities certified her death as suicide because it was ‘she who had made the decision not to pray’.
E1l7P TIL I learned that nobody in the Union army wanted to fire the Williams Cleaner Bullet. It was less accurate than the normal Minie', more expensive to manufacture and it did not clean the barrel at all. Soldiers just threw them away or kept them as a last reserve. The Bullet Nobody Wanted to Fire.