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Today I Learned that the Pineapple plant is a carnivorous plant

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xV8Kk Today I learned that a group of engineering students from Purdue University found that it takes 364 licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
epl1g TIL When Benjamin Franklin returned to America after having spent nine years in Paris as an ambassador, he was short 100,000 pounds in congressional money. When questioned on this by a member of Congress Franklin waved the question away and the matter was never brought up again.
R5Z1 TIL that if you put a bottle of champagne into a microwave it doesn’t simply explode- the entire microwave blows up.
DG5g TIL as young actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire blocked the release of a film they starred in as it debased their clean images. After settling a lawsuit filed against them by the film’s producer it remains unreleased in the US.
e0am6 TIL Tabasco Sauce is fermented for three years in used Jack Daniel's Whiskey barrels before bottling.