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TIL Australia's flora is so advanced that it doesn't kill you but can get you to kill yourself

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k7vd TIL It’s possible to trap a laser’s beam inside a stream of water, which will result in the beam being guided by the stream.
ZAvp TIL A female shorebird was recently found to have flown 7,145 miles nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand—without taking a break for food or drink.
W71w8 TIL The last game released for the PlayStation 2, "Pro Evolution Soccer 2014" was released on 8 November 2013. This was 13 years after the PS2 was initially released, and the same month of the PS4's release.
OGBQY TIL Each of your 10,000,000,000,000 cells has 1.8 meters of DNA.
JXRl TIL a genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorised that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.