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TIL Sunflowers can help clean up radiation.

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GYGNG TIL that sharks have 7 senses. They have the same 5 that we have plus two more. One is used to detect vibrations and the other is used to detect electric fields.????
R7LOw TIL The largest pre-WW1 plane was built by Igor Sikorsky and was named after a Kiev Rus warrior. Sikorsky personally flew the plane from Petersburg to his native Kiev setting several world records.
rNrRe TIL only two women have attempted to assassinate a US president. The attempts were 17 days apart, and both on President Ford.
e0BAL TIL that the Great Pyramids of Giza were built smooth and shiny. There was an outer layer of white limestone that covered the pyramids and reflected the Egyptian sun, but it was removed over time and only the inner layers remain.
NE5J TIL Saddam Hussein bought 4000 PS2s in 2000 to build supercomputers.