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TIL Plants aren't silent. They make clicking sounds like popcorn inaudible to humans that change under stress

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d8oj TIL that according to the DoE, if subsidies are taken away Wind and Hydro are the cheapest forms of generating electricity
rRe0o TIL The United States Department of Agriculture says the official definition of a sandwich is: “at least 35% cooked meat and no more than 50 percent bread”.
X0ADr TIL the bronze Nazi eagle emblem from the WW2 German cruiser, Admiral Graf Spee has been recovered in Uruguay and will be melted down and recast as a dove
7Ex7 TIL that the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, is only worth about $1 million dollars.
OGkee TIL that of the three astronauts on Apollo 13, one was the first death among people who flew to the Moon, and the other two are still alive (as of 18 July 2024)