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TIL that if there are 23 people in a room, there’s a 50% chance that 2 of them share a birthday. If there are 70 people in a room, there’s a 99.9% chance that 2 if them share a birthday. This is called the Birthday Problem or Birthday Paradox

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e0Ak5 TIL that plants respond to stimuli as intelligent beings. When researchers played an audiotrack of caterpillars munching on leaves, plants secreted chemicals to make their own leaves more resistant. They can also sense gravity and the presence of water, and produce their own neurotransmitters.
Oo9K6 TIL a slave was indicted for waging war against the state and was later sentenced to be hanged for treason. Two dissenting judges argued that a slave, being a noncitizen, could not commit treason. He was later pardoned.
EN1P TIL: Usain Bolt Has Never Run a Mile
0lWM TIL Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice for 34 years, was a member of the KKK.
V4ZZ TIL The only known armed Nazi military operation on North American soil, in October of 1943, was installation of Weather Station Kurt by a German u-boat team. It was accidentally discovered in 1977.