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TIL that some trees accumulate toxic levels of heavy metals in their tissues as a form of defense

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eKZ5 TIL The only time the letter Y is a vowel is when your tongue doesn’t touch your palate (roof of mouth). If it does then it is a consonant. examples being yellow = consonant, sky = vowel.
69BYY TIL that in the early universe, there is about 1 billion and ONE particle of matter for every 1 billion antimatter. As those billion particles annihilated, each leftover particle of matter eventually clustered and formed up most of what we see in the current universe.
dDgZ8 TIL that while Emperor Charles I of Austria's body is buried in Madeira, where he had been exiled following the Dissolution of Austria-Hungary, his heart is currently held in the Muri Abbey, a monastery near Zürich, Switzerland
BgRmL TIL studies suggest that from 1970 to 1976, the IHS (Indian Health Service) sterilized between 25-50% of Native American women of child-bearing age.
QNXM TIL that the recipe for Greek fire, an ancient incendiary weapon that would burn on water, has not been determined to this day.