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TIL that plants can be albino, too. They have no chloroplasts and produce no chlorophyll of their own, so they either die early, or adapt to become parasites of the plants closest to them, and steal nutrients from them. Like vampire plants. Crazy!

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BrnPk TIL that Denise Rossi, who won 1.3$ millions in lottery and 11 days later went on to divorce her husband so that she wouldn't have to share her money, had to give all of the winnings to her Husband ultimately, because she didn't disclosed her assets beforehand.
Wk8EN TIL In Morocco in 1914 , an invading French force took a Berber encampment by surprise, kidnapping two of the Berber leader's wives. The Berbers counterattacked and annihilated the French force, and later exchanged the dead body of the French leader for the two wives
jN69n TIL we call letters "uppercase" and "lowercase" because the original printing presses kept letter blocks in literal cases; since small letters were used more often, they kept them in the bottom case for easy access; thus, lowercase (and uppercase) were born.
Ewyd TIL that during the filming of Caligula, in Rome, Malcolm McDowell took the entire production crew out to dinner to celebrate an English football win against Italy. At the end of the lavish meal, he claimed to not have enough money, and stuck the film’s choreographer with the bill.
Zp054 TIL that On September 10, 2001, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a press conference that $2.3 trillion from Pentagon had gone missing, but the 9/11 attacks took attention away from this news, so it was forgotten.