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TIL A retired teacher who had been struggling for breath for months was amazed when doctors told him there was a PEA plant growing in his lung.

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166Pd TIL about Cyclones Katrina and Victor-Cindy, a cyclone (hurricane for the Americans) in the Southern Hemisphere that maintained its circulation for over fifty days, crossed over three basins (South Pacific -> Australian Region -> Southwest Indian Ocean), and used three names.
6EgJ TIL Soundgarden did a 1 minute cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s duet “2 Minute’s Silence,” claiming to have cut Yoko’s minute from the track.
ANmQB TIL plants can sense gravity. Starch filled organelles act like snowglobe particles and settle at bottom of cells, allowing plants to orient themselves.
GG6Q TIL Texas Billionaire T. Cullen Davis hired a hit man to kill his wife which caused the death of his stepdaughter. He later was caught on tape arranging for a hit man to kill his wife and the judge overseeing his divorce proceedings. He was acquitted both times.
wobw1 TIL about Reduplicative paramnesia, a rare delusion where someone believes a place has been duplicated or relocated, often linked to brain injuries affecting the right hemisphere and frontal lobes.