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TIL Plant roots will grow towards artificially produced water sounds.

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kJrA5 TIL the cake on the cover of the Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed album was made by the then-unknown British chef Delia Smith
yJga TIL Disney renamed “The Snow Queen” to “Frozen” because they found that feminine titles are a lot less appealing to boys.
1agN8 TIL thanks to a tip from Malcom in the Middle's music clearance officer, Bryan Cranston received quarterly composing checks for his improvised humming and whistling, which the actor used to fund cast parties.
PYWDV [TIL] William Chester Minor cut off his penis and contributed a lot to the Oxford English Dictionary.
R5DAa TIL of Walter M. Gibson, a 19th century adventurer who was a gunrunner in the Caribbean and imprisoned in the East Indies for fomenting rebellion, but while awaiting execution, had a vision of creating an island empire and escaped -- then tried to create that empire as Prime Minister of Hawaii.