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TIL that a 2019 study showed that evening primrose plants can "hear" the sound of a buzzing bee nearby and produce sweeter nectar in response to it.

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LkXmr TIL of pro-butter Senator Gordon Roselip. In a 1955 Wisconsin senatorial blind taste test Roselip preferred margarine, insisting it was butter. It later transpired that Roselip’s wife, worried about his heart, had for years been substituting yellow margarine for butter at the Senator’s dinner table.
o5PW TIL that frozen pizza is so popular in Norway that when a popular brand released a new jingle, it reached #1 on the Norwegian charts.
DQwBg TIL that Zambia produces the most emeralds in the world. Between 2016 and 2020, the country produced 129,400 kilograms of emerald gemstones. Emeralds from Zambia have grown in popularity due to their level of clarity, the depth of their color, and their tendency to be stronger than other emeralds
p80EG TIL: Mirror boxes can relieve serious pain, for people missing a limb.
GYkwg TIL I learned that if the entire history of Earth is displayed with one year in a calendar dinosaurs would get extinct on December 25th and the first homo sapiens would appear around 11:36 pm on December 31th.