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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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j6weN TIL Ferris Bueller's Day Off was made into a TV show 4 years after the movie. Ferris's sister Jeannie, played by Jennifer Gray in the movie, was played by Jennifer Anniston.
1aRmV Til of Babani Sissoko, who used black magic to con the Islamic Dubai Bank of more than $240m. He served half of his 43 day sentence and paid fines ($1.25m) with the money defrauded from the bank
kJWd7 TIL about the Lockheed CL-1201, a 1960s design for a nuclear powered, supersonic, flying aircraft carrier. If it had made it to the prototype phase, its wingspan would have been twice as long as any aircraft today.
m1wgo TIL America, named after explorer Amerigo Vespucci, owes its name to cartographer Vautrin Lud and other members of the Vosges Gymnasium, who in 1507 produced the Universalis Cosmographia in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (France), the world's first map to include the “new continent”.
VMWvZ TIL In 1914, the exchange rate of the German mark to the American dollar was about 4.2 to one. Nine years later, it was 4.2 trillion to one. The price of a loaf of bread went from 250 marks in January 1923 to 200 trillion in November.