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TIL it is a common misconception that all sunflower heads track the Sun across the sky. While young sunflowers do exhibit the behavior, when it reaches maturity the sunflower will stay static usually towards an eastwards direction.

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M1o0 TIL that Psy, the creator of “gangnam style” is a heavy drinker, calling vodka his “best friend” and, I quote, “If I’m happy, I’m drinking, if I’m sad, I’m drinking. If it’s raining, I’m drinking, if it’s sunny, I’m drinking”
Br7WK TIL Matthew McConaughey’s father told him “When I go, it’ll be makin’ love to your mother.” Sure enough, the prediction came true and he passed away having sex at 3am on a Monday morning.
4XyaN TIL During WWII, large corporations like Bosch and Daimler Benz, unequivocally supported goals of Hitler’s regime and its war effort in exchange for advantageous contracts, subsidies and in exchange was allowed to use slave labor from occupied countries, which accounted for one quarter of workforce
epV1L TIL that According to NASA Space Place, we are all time travelers because we travel one year in time between birthdays and we are all traveling in time at approximately the same speed: 1 second per second. We typically experience time at one second per second
oBrBE TIL one of the reasons the Chinese never fully developed gunpowder weaponry was because their walls could sustain artillery bombardments. Even 20th century artillery guns had trouble piercing their walls.