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TIL that sunflowers can help clean radioactive soil. Japan is using this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Almost 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.

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wLx0P TIL that dogs can suffer from narcolepsy, and that eating can be tricky for them because their excitement over food will trigger attacks.
xVON5 TIL in the final years of World War II, Italian businessman Giorgio Perlasca risked his life by posing as a Spanish diplomat in order to save more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. Perlasca, a non-Jew, has been honored for his heroism, courage, and compassion by several nations
wEeP TIL A child was born who was the nearest medical example of a virgin birth, most of his cells contained genetic material only from his mother
9wwEG TIL that colored goldfish are colored with different types of vegetables not food dye
EgZnp TIL in 1933 'stereo records' invented by Alan Dower Blumlein. Sadly, Blumlein did not live to see the lasting impact his many innovations had. He was killed on 7 June 1942, when the Halifax bomber he was flying in crashed during a trial of the H2S radar system. He was 38.