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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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9YR1M TIL the 6 year old boy who claimed he "went to heaven and came back" after being "internally decapitated" in a car accident recanted his story when he got older, stating he said it for attention, and the book about it was full of lies
9wWm TIL: In Churchill, Manitoba residents leave car doors open so passing people can jump in the presence of a polar bear.
XEOw8 TIL the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is 330 metres (1,080 ft) tall and was intended to be world's tallest hotel but these days it is the tallest unoccupied building in the world
XKrE TIL that before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, prostitutes enrolled in free English classes to improve their hosting skills and ability to make more money off their customers
kO9mg TIL: the full-length version of "Miracles" (Jefferson Starship) was cut by more than half its length for the single. This edit was done not only for length, but to remove the sexual reference in the line "I had a taste of the real world when I went down on you, girl"