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TIL that the dust from Sahara Desert provides valuable phosphorous to the Amazon rainforest, allowing the latter to thrive.

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Wex8 TIL that a double rod pendulum creates totally unpredictable trajectories, due to the ‘chaos theory’.
wLjx1 TIL Fruit flies drink alcohol when they are sexually frustrated.
oRpj7 TIL in 1971, an activist group wanted to break into an FBI office to steal draft records. They knew they couldn't pick the lock, so they left a note on the door that said, "Please don't lock this door tonight." It worked.
JY5Av TIL that Stephen king was a huge Ramones fan and asked the Ramones to write a song for his 1989 movie pet Sematary based on his book Pet Sematary
W70od TIL that some diseases are so rare that there have been less than 100 reported cases to date. An example of an ultra rare disease is Zimmermann-Laband syndrome, also known as KCNH1.