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

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ADWnd TIL Left-handed people's brains are so different from right-handed that they are often excluded from many psychological research studies
WegY TIL Robbie Williams’ album Rudebox was so commercially unsuccessful that over 1 million copies were sent to China to be recycled and used for surfacing roads
7r8DM TIL the most expensive painting in the world, recently sold at an auction for $450m, was bought in 2005 for just $10k.
W7MA4 TIL the USA ran secret radiation experiments on unconsenting patients
klxE TIL according to the FBI’s 2007 statistics, interracial violent crime is at least 8x more likely to be black on white than white on black. The study found over 430,000 instances of black on white robberies, murders, assaults, etc., compared to about 55,000 white on black violent crimes