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TIL pinecones close when they get wet to make sure they disperse seeds on a dry day.

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K1NG TIL of “Green Boots” - an unidentified corpse that every climber who attempts the Northwest ridge route of Mount Everest passes.
GGaQ TIL bluesman R. L. Burnside once killed a man at a dice game. When asked about the incident, he said: “I didn’t mean to kill nobody. I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head and two times in the chest. Him dying was between him and the Lord.”
p8rK8 TIL about "Brazilian Schindler"; Souza Dantas, an ambassador from Brazil in nazi-occupied France in 1940's, risked his life giving visas to hundreds of jews and others. Against the will of the Brazilian government at the time, he saved around 800 people from certain death.
8am74 TIL that even though Jupiter is a massive planet, a day on Jupiter only lasts about 5 hours because it's rotating at 28,000 MPH. By comparison, Earth rotates at only 1,000 MPH.
dJRE TIL that Cards Against Humanity bought an island and named it Hawaii 2