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TIL Plant roots will grow towards artificially produced water sounds.

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4X76 TIL that the Korean DMZ is an involuntary nature reserve and is home to extremely rare tigers and bears
8Rn4 TIL after first implementing cloud computing technology, Amazon employed “two-pizza teams” to maintain and upgrade the hardware, aka a team small enough to be fed with only 2 pizzas.
JMg1 TIL Not only were the founding fathers against the idea of political parties, John Adams once said: “This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”
R7pB4 TIL about “mad honey,” a honey made by bees gathering pollen from rhododendrons. “To put it mildly, just one spoonful can get you as effed up as a football bat” -
5gBk TIL that fire extinguishers used to be color coded based on what was inside; today, each one has pictures on it that show what kinds of fires it can fight.