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TIL the smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal. When grass is cut, it releases compounds called green leaf volatiles, which signal injury and can attract predators of plant-eating insects.

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x6aR7 TIL that Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies (1985), is now a Hollywood lawyer and actually negotiated the contract of his former Goonies co-star Ke Huy Quan (played Data in Goonies) for his casting in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
xVoRB TIL that you will never see a bin being emptied in Disneyland because of a series of hidden tunnels
YPBA TIL it is unconstitutional for the state of Texas to be in debt.
GAKxj TIL cucumbers, pumpkin, squash, and watermelon are all in the same plant family
wkJ1 TIL: The money required to eradicate hunger for everyone in the world has been estimated at 30 billion per year…about as much as the world spends on the military every eight days.