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TIL a plant called b. fiolata can replicate the leaves of multiple nearby plants on a single vine by copying features such as leaf size, area, length, angle, color, and even spines

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ne7Od TIL in Poland every movie is always dubbed by the same male narrator speaking over the original audio
Rpww TIL the pre-Meiji Japanese government differentiated believers and non-believers of Catholicism by making them step on pictures of the Virgin Mary and Christ. Those found guilty were often executed by being thrown into a volcano
JY5x4 TIL that US homes today are 1,000 square feet larger than in 1973 and living space per person has nearly doubled
LeEZ TIL of the ‘flic-flac’ desert spider - so called because of it’s ability to double its speed by cartwheeling out of danger
nEo9 TIL Star Trek hyposprays were invented to get around NBC’s ban on showing syringes on television.