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TIL each daisy is actually hundreds of tiny flowers pretending to be a single flower

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P1m6O TIL permanent magnets can levitate, no superconductivity required
6RBZ TIL that the first female governor of Texas was elected in 1924. She said “she would follow the advice of her husband” and voters would get “two governors for the price of one.”
jNp5a TIL Zürich has around 1200 water fountains. That’s an average of one every 0.03 miles of the city’s 34 square miles
jNbWp TIL that before roads were a thing, roadrunners were called Chaparral Cocks
kOvyB TIL the biblical Tower of Babel was likely based on a real building, the Etemenanki in modern-day Iraq; at about 300 feet tall, it was massive by ancient standards and built by King Nebuchadnezzar II.