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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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BgZmW TIL in 2009 Burger King ran the "Whopper sacrifice" campaign, which gave a free whopper to anyone who deleted 10 friends on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was alerting people letting them know they'd been dropped for a sandwich
epMgD TIL about Frederick Valentich, an Australian pilot who disappeared during a flight in 1978 after reporting an unidentified object following him and saying, 'It's not an aircraft.'
b9y7p TIL Susan B. Anthony, although known for work for women's suffrage, was also an abolitionist: she collected anti-slavery petitions when she was 17, and in her 30's she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
woOmW TIL a cave pool in Death Valley called Devil’s Hole experiences a “desert tsunami” when high magnitude earthquakes occur even thousands of miles away, risking endangering the pupfish species which exist nowhere on earth but this cave in heart of one of the most dry deserts on earth.
e0W0g TIL that working memory operates phonologically which helps Chinese speaking people to remember more digits than English speakers because Chinese number words are all single syllables whereas words in English aren’t.