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TIL Snapchat’s expired snaps are not deleted, just hidden

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7rV6P TIL that fully grown Sunflowers don't always face the Sun. The property of facing the Sun is observed only in the young flower heads and it stops as the flower matures. Mature Sunflowers generally face the east.
Y7DBB TIL that in 1966, a boy unknowingly caused an ecological crisis by smuggling and releasing three Giant African Land Snails in Miami, leading to a costly, $1 million, decade-long eradication campaign.
bK1E TIL that Mozart disliked performer Adriana Ferrarese del Bene, who was know for nodding her head down on low notes and raising her head on high notes, so much, that he wrote a song for her to perform that had lots of jumps from low to high just so he could see her head “bob like a chicken” onstage.
YpJgr TIL about the Battle of Saragarhi where 21 Sikh Soldiers of the British Army fought against 10,000 Afghan Tribesmen. It is considered to be one of the greatest last stands in human history.
j6mX TIL Ethiopia has banned Skype, Google Talk, and all other VoIP services