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TIL parents filed an ethics complaint against a High School Biology teacher for using the word “vagina” while teaching reproduction.

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QJQrM TIL that all plants of the same stock of bamboo will bloom at the same time, and then die, no matter where they are in the world. Usually once every hundred years or so.
mx9Do TIL that the US stores apples in a process called Controlled Atmosphere. These are storage rooms that control the temperature, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and humidity levels to put apples in hibernation which “puts them in suspended animation”. This is why we can have apples that taste good year round.
Q1kX TIL: the 19th amendment was ratified due to one vote, cast by Harry Burn. He was originally against women’s sufferage, until he received a letter from his mother.
DQLdD TIL why NHL Stadiums sound an air horn after a goal is scored. Thank Bill Wirtz, owner of both Chicago Stadium and the Blackhawks, who liked the sound of his air horn on his yacht, so he had one installed inside the stadium in 1973. His uncle's company made it, and most NHL horns come from them.
vPB4D TIL that one of the last songs to play at the World Trade Center before the towers collapsed was a cover of "How Deep is your Love"