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TIL all four daughters of Karl Marx were called Jenny.

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PY0Qn TIL of William James Beal. In 1879, he started one of the longest running experiments in botany, testing the seed viability of 21 plant species over long periods of time. The experiment is scheduled to finish in 2100, when the last bottle of seeds will be tested.
69lyw TIL In the 1580s, a Franciscan Friar named Martin Ignacio de Loyola made the first eastward circumnavigation of Earth. He was also the first man to circumnavigate the globe in both directions and the first to use overland routes in circumnavigation.
AyNB TIL that the sting of the tarantuala hawk wasp is among the most painful of all insects. One researcher described the pain as “…immediate… unrelenting pain that simply shuts down one’s ability to do anything, except scream.”
X1N6 TIL: Not all snow flakes are symmetrical: “Despite what Wilson Bentley’s old photographs would have us believe, most snowflakes are not symmetrical. Wilson Bentley only photographed the pretty ones. In fact, 99% of snow flakes are downright ugly
VPJ0 TIL Venus Flytraps are native to with an approximate 100mi circle around Wilmington, North Carolina – not the Amazon or some other jungle.