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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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8aokG TIL Japan has a process to clean and check eggs for safety that allows them to be eaten raw, without getting salmonella
P1W5n TIL for the most part, English witches were hanged while French ones were burned. This posed a riddle for the Channel island of Guernsey when three witches turned up there in 1617. Ultimately, they were hanged according to British law, then burned according to French 🤯
rR8Zw TIL that the marital difficulties of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were due to her exceptionally narrow vagina and his overlarge penis; both Habsburg and Bourbon elites discussed the problem in detail
N7gpb TIL that Henry Hiemlich used the Hiemlich Maneuver for the first time, at 96 years old in 2016.
6ElPW TIL a "lost" Rodin sculpture worth millions was in plain sight in a New Jersey local council chamber.