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TIL Plants lace their nectar with caffeine to keep pollinators loyal.

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D1AaJ TIL the famous line from the film Captain Phillips "Look at me. I’m the captain now.” was improvised by actor Barkhad Abdi who had no prior acting experience.
epPdg TIL: In 2007 the New York Times stopped using Times New Roman font and started using Georgia font - a font created for computers in 1993 by Microsoft
v1rWL TIL Henry ford instructed drivers in a race to finish at same time in a dead heat to create publicity for the company
x6MM7 TIL Pope Urban VII's only major act as Pope was the world's first public smoking ban. Anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose" faced excommunication. His reign lasted 13 days
16wbD TIL "Cart-Starts"(tiny explosives) are used to make a launch quicker for B-52s