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TIL: NASA actually published a study of the benefits of plants in the room

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loGDa TIL, that only female papaya trees give fruit but they need male flowers to pollinate them.
JYmXv TIL that not only is there a difference between male and female tanks, with male tanks having, at the smallest, six-pound guns while female tanks have smaller, typically machine guns, but the French had a tank class called ‘dream of virgin’ in French
PYmaO TIL that transmitting data from person to person via hard drives and physical media is called the Sneakernet
kwl7 TIL that two men claimed to have been abducted by aliens with carrot-like faces and lobster-claw hands. The local sheriff left them alone and secretly recorded them, expecting a hoax to be revealed, but they continued to discuss the events with each other as if they were terrified.
MXE7 TIL there’s a place in Vancouver that provides a safe space for intravenous drug addicts to inject themselves. They provide clean needles, food, and drug addiction counciling