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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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OEMa TIL of Crab Mentality; when a bunch of crabs are in a bucket, they could easily escape by themselves. However, the fellow crabs pull each other down so no one can escape.
OmD6 TIL a child porn sting found 5,200 Pentagon employees suspected of accessing kiddie porn. Only a handful were prosecuted.
kyNE TIL of Bill Morgan, a man who won a car in the lottery after being deemed clinically dead for over 14 minutes and in a coma for 12 days. Then, when a local news show asked to film a reenactment, he won $250,000 while the cameras rolled.
KOxEQ TIL in the US in 1952 you could buy a Native American child for $10
XkbQ TIL the CIA in Vietnam, in a program called “Operation Phoenix,” secretly, without trial, executed at least twenty thousand civilians in South Vietnam who were suspected of being members of the Communist underground.