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TIL Ohio has a native species of cactus

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NX9N TIL candle wicks curve over on purpose. This puts the tip just (and just the tip) in reach of oxygen, effectively trimming the wick.
885V TIL Tony Bennett fought on the front lines in Germany during WWII as an 18 year old G.I. He helped liberate a concentration camp and was demoted for eating lunch with his black friend.
b9GBN TIL about Salma Bashir, a girl whose intestines were sucked out of her body in a swimming pool, and now lives without her gallbladder and large and small intestines
wLj01 TIL Carrie Fisher delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory producer who had assaulted her friend. She said, "The next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!"
D0pr TIL there is a rare incurable disease which turns muscles, tendons and ligaments into bone. It is called the Stone Man Syndrome.