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

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jNbaR TIL that there have been multiple people adrift at sea who have lived over a year with no supplies other than what the ocean had to offer. Through their own ingenuity and perseverance they survived.
OKe4 TIL that research indicates black americans really do tip waiters less than whites americans, but likely as part of a cycle: waiters resist serving African Americans, or they provide poorer service, which discourages blacks from patronizing table-service restaurants.
45Vw TIL the actress who played Vina/Orion Slave Girl in the Original Star Trek’s ‘The Menagerie’ was on a plane that suddenly dropped fr 35,000ft to 6,000ft. To recover, she learned how to fly & became the 4th woman to fly a single-engine aircraft solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She is Susan Oliver.
yVy5a TIL that birds are now using anti-bird spikes to build their nests.
WAJA TIL that a dog that chased away a suicide bomber in Afghanistan and saved the lives of 50 US soldiers was accidently euthanized in a dog shelter in Arizona.