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TIL most plants grow faster in the evening and at night than they do during the day.

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AD14a TIL Mother ducks may abandon ducklings if they are physically stuck in an area or are not prospering due to genetic defects or sickness brought about by hypothermia, starvation, or disease.
ep6k6 TIL that in the early '80s the CIA helped facilitate the widespread sale of cocaine in poor L.A. neighborhoods to help finance the covert war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The journalist who revealed this later killed himself after a smear campaign.
9YJEX TIL In 2010, a thief broke into the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris and stole five paintings worth €100 million ( $123 million USD). Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, commented, "These five paintings are unsellable, so thieves, sirs, you are imbeciles, now return them." The art has not been recovered.
awNMM TIL the French philosopher Michel Foucault was paid for his famous debate with Noam Chomsky in hashish
d7VE TIL that the Times said in 2013 that it does not publish letters from climate change deniers: “Saying ‘there’s no sign humans have caused climate change’ is not stating an opinion, it’s asserting a factual inaccuracy’ that doesn’t belong in our pages.”