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TIL That the Pentagon has 2 times more bathrooms than needed because it was built during segregation.

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eppgg Today I learned that the blue component of the light spectrum is essential for phenolic compounds (flavonoids, phenolic acids, etc.) production and accumulation in higher plants. This is possible thanks to photoreceptor signaling, especially involving cryptochromes.
bMr7 TIL blanket octopi have evolved an immunity to the poison of the man o’ war and rips off its tentacles to use as whips
jNV6a TIL that Peanuts characters Snoopy and Woodstock´s fifty two year friendship began when Woodstock and his brother hatched from eggs in a nest that their mother made on top of Snoopy´s belly, a year later in 1967, Woodstock came back to perch on Snoopy´s nose, thus beginning their long fellowship.
nW9wr TIL Isaac Newton invested in the “South Sea Company” which profited from the sale of some British goods and, more significantly and more grimly, enslaved Africans
loWOG TIL about "The Thing", a non-powered microphone created by Theremin and used by the Soviets to spy on the US embassy in Moscow for 7 years