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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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V0Kp TIL: America is the only English speaking country that pronounces Z as “zee”
XmL8 TIL a British soldier was cut off from his regiment in 1914 and managed to hide in occupied territory in a wardrobe for 4 years with the Germans at one point even helping to move the wardrobe with him in it.
GYkGQ TIL the Wizard of Oz's real name is Oz Pinhead, or Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs
d806r TIL In a 1945 interview with The New York Times, Alexander Fleming, who won a Nobel Prize that year for his discovery of pencillin, warned that misuse of the drug could result in selection for resistant bacteria. True to this prediction, resistance began to emerge within 10 years.
d8Ojd TIL frozen pipes burst not because ice expands through the wall of the pipe, but because the expanding ice compresses water downpipe, building pressure until it bursts