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TIL some plants like kiwifruit, wild taro, pineapples have microscopic sharp crystalline needles called raphides.

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6EDe7 TIL that Russia sold Alaska for $0.02 per s.m.
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1BnO TIL Dolphins give each other names and will answer to it even when called by dolphins they don’t know.
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