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TIL that it's actually possible to communicate with plants

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oRYYL TIL: The Army developed a weapon concept after being inspired by a Pokémon episode in 1998. The weapon was designed to produce large scale seizures with a range of hundreds of meters. It can incapacitate people for up to 5 minutes. The Pokémon episode that inspired it caused 700 seizures.
MeRRb TIL In 1937, the Nazis put two art shows on in Munich; one was for “degenerate” (mainly abstract) art primarily made by “Jews/Bolsheviks”, while the other one was on “Great” German art, like classics. The former received more than a million visitors, 3 times the number that visited the latter.
ANmJd TIL John D'Amato, mobster and acting boss of the DeCavalcante crime family in New Jersey, was murdered in January 1992 after he was suspected of engaging in homosexual activity.
Qwok TIL The French government forced Madame Tussaud to make models of her friends’ decapitated heads
n6LY TIL That polar bears have a bone inside their penis to keep an erection going, and that pollution is causing the bones to weaken to the point where the bones are breaking.