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TIL Spiderwort is natures Geiger counter the petals of the flower turn from blue to pink when exposed to radiation

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NKJM TIL: The oldest known medical text is a book about vaginas.
j68bv TIL about Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat who negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 other prisoners from a Nazi German concentration camp.
nexoo TIL Raffi the beloved children’s singer has a charity called The Centre for Child Honouring which advocates for a child’s right to live free of commercial (advertising) exploitation. Raffi has consistently turned down all endorsement offers including a lucrative one for a Baby Beluga motion picture
yVYAJ TIL that bird migration wasn’t proved until 1822. Before then, theories to explain their seasonal disappearance included hibernation and transforming into mice.
M7R0 TIL the word “nothing” was Elizabethan slang for vagina and that the play “Much Ado About Nothing” was a shameless, dirty pun