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TIL The Venus Flytrap is native only to a 60-mile radius around Wilmington, North Carolina and nowhere else

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ADrYx TIL that your body odors changes when you've been successfully infected by plasmodium (Malaria). Thereby making you a better target for mosquitos and spreading the disease.
p8oGZ TIL Ali Hassan Al-Majid was named Chemical Ali because of his contributions to Bloody Friday. This Event was a Chemical attack in Kurdistan in which people who were hit by these gas bombs dropped dead. In some cases, they coughed up green vomit/died of laughter.
ovkA TIL that there are 4 competing theories on why shower curtains blow inward when taking a shower
jY7p TIL Astronaut Scott Carpenter Spoke to President Johnson 200 ft below the surface of the ocean, but he was in a decompression chamber with a helium atmosphere and nobody could understand what he was saying.
0v9R TIL a movie was created in the 80’s with a murder scene so realistic the director was jailed until the actors could be located.