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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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mLVy TIL some cable networks (like TBS and TNT) imperceptibly speed up reruns of shows (like Seinfeld) so they can fit in more ads. Speeding up the show by just 7.5% allows them to shave off almost two minutes off the broadcast.
6EGJQ TIL of the “Tully Monster” an ancient creature so strange researchers have yet to agree whether it’s a vertebrate or an invertebrate.
nWL8Y TIL: When You’re Sleep-Deprived, Your Brain Literally Starts Eating Itself
RDYl TIL When Ronald Reagan became president of the United States he asked his Chief of Staff to see “The War Room”. No one had informed him that it was only a movie set that was created fictionally for the black comedy “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”.
W7jx4 TIL H.Kramer, author of the most popular work on witchcraft in early modern Europe and largely responsible for the witch hunting craze, was initialy condemned by theologians in his native Germany. They deemed his practices unethical and illegal, and his work inconsistent with catholic views.