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TIL: Viagra, when dissolved in water, can help plant stems stay erect and double their lifespan.

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X01g8 TIL first two subway stations in the United States were the Boylston and Park Street stations in Boston, which opened in 1897.
5Y1eP TIL the Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu build the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest which is the heaviest building which weighs 4,098,500,000 kg and is also the largest administrative building in the world.
LkNjP TIL that NASA had to change condom (used as part of the urination system in space suits) sizes from small, medium, large to large, gigantic, humongous since all of the astronauts picked up large regardless of their size.
epMan TIL Conjoined triplets are among the rarest of human malformations, as are asymmetric or parasitic conjoined twins. In addition to some historical descriptions, only three attested clinical cases of symmetric conjoined triplets have been published to date.
QJZvE TIL that people think of Vikings as big brutes but most were small because of malnutrition and when they would attack they would use their speed not their strength.