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TIL that the little blue pill makes cut flowers stand up straight longer (by a whole week)

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9wMZ7 TIL the Turkish Airlines give a special 50% discount to family members of martyrs
M7MWK TIL of the Vai syllabary, a script used for writing the Vai language of Liberia. It is hypothesized to be based off the Cherokee script, used by the Indigenous Cherokee people in modern day South Eastern United States, and diffused from Cherokee migrants on the Liberian coast.
16R6V TIL about Brienz, Switzerland and how Swiss authorities believe the mountain above it faces imminent collapse. Villagers have been ordered to evacuate by 5/12/23
400o TIL Shania Twain divorced her husband after he cheated with her best friend. Later Twain married the ex-husband of that same best friend.
b9K97 TIL that the people of the Åland Islands wanted to be annexed by Sweden, but the Swedish government was preoccupied, so they sent them off to the LoN, where a Japanese-influenced delegation handed them over to Finland with a justification they hoped they could use to justify their own imperialism