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TIL that a plant called Boquila trifoliolata is able to mimic the leaves of other plants, even plastic ones.

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D1VGv TIL that Seals brought Tuberculosis to the Americas before Europeans.
QJy4p TIL Lysol was the best-selling method of contraception during the Great Depression because birth control was illegal in the U.S. until 1965 for married couples and 1972 for single people.
DQBLe TIL The Philippines is an archipelago which consists of 7,641 Islands. That figure does not include the thousands of sandbars and other landforms that emerge during low tide.
69dDm TIL about The Black Taj Mahal (Kala Taj), a black marble mausoleum that was planned to be built across the Yamuna River opposite the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Mughal emperor Shah Jahan desired a mausoleum for himself similar to that of the one he had built in memory of his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal.