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TIL that flowers are actually the reproductive organs of certain plants (called angiosperms)

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yPPv TIL “(You Gotta) Fight for your Right (to Party!)” by the Beastie Boys was written as a parody of other songs glorifying a partying lifestyle - an irony lost on many fans.
l7517 TIL France detonated its 1st atomic bomb, the Blue Jerboa, on Feb. 13, 1960 in Saharan Algeria. This was the 1st of 17 nuclear weapons detonations that occurred in the area between 1960 & 1966. The Blue Jerboa was 3 times more powerful than the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.
9R9X TIL that some people get magnets implanted under their skin so they can feel electromagnetic fields and pick stuff up with them.
KYVa6 TIL that the first artificial christmas tree was made out of goose feathers
pYGbN TIL Canada also had American-style "Sundown Towns" like Leamington, Ontario, "where Black people would face violence or harassment if they were in public after dark"