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TIL: The White Mulberry tree flings its pollen at over half the speed of sound through stored elastic force within its anthers.

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dGej TIL the slowest musical piece in history, As SLow aS Possible (ASLSP) by John Cage, is currently being played for the next 639 years. It started 2001 and the last note change was in 2013.
Y7g8A TIL in 1956-1957, the chinese communist party (ccp) launched a campaign called "hundred flowers movement" where they encouraged chinese citizens to give their opinions about the communist party. it failed. then mao zedong, conducted an ideological crackdown to those who criticized the party.
nLed TIL Walt Disney hired 11 dwarfs for the premiere of Pinocchio to dress up like the puppet and greet children. Left with a day’s worth of food and wine, by mid-afternoon there were 11 naked dwarfs running around screaming obscenities at the crowd.
0wVZ5 TIL The Godzilla from the 1998 American film was renamed "Zilla" by rights holder Toho in 2006, because the film "had taken the 'God' out of 'Godzilla' by portraying the character as a mere animal."
9ER6 TIL that Metallica’s “The Black Album” has been on the Swedish “Weekly Hard Rock List” for a total of 557 weeks.