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TIL that some plants caffeinate their nectar because it helps bees remember where they are

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GAp9E TIL the City of Boston has border collies that scare off geese in the esplanade along the Charles River to prevent them from nesting.
Oor8g TIL that in addition to ending WW1, the Treaty of Versailles also made it so that Bayer could no longer trademark "heroin".
6ELBQ TIL that Benjamin Franklin preferred the turkey as the national bird of the United States
Mevo8 TIL That a French author proposed cats be genetically engineered to change color in the presence of dangerous levels of radiation, and that a mythology be reinforced in culture to ward people from places where cats exhibit this behavior.
x5b TIL: Ayn Rand’s intellectual heir earns lots of money based on publishing her unpublished works. Which is essentially, living off the words of another. And not Objectivism.