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TIL that in the needles of the Pinus flexilis live bacteria that are capable of fixing nitrogen from the air.

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6DOw TIL crevices and crevasses aren’t the same thing. A crevice forms in rock, but a crevasse forms in ice.
5VQ5B TIL that bulimia is socially contagious. Fiji had never had a report of anyone with an eating disorder, but within three years after television was introduced in 1995, a study found 11% of Fiji’s adolescent girls had purged their food at least once. By 2007, it was 45%.
0dejN TIL In June 2022 Belgium returned the gold-capped tooth of Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba had been executed in 1961 and the tooth was all that remained after the first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo was dissolved in acid and his bones ground to dust.
NQAQ TIL America exports disposable chopsticks to China.
Egyad TIL: Marlon Brando once stated that Charlie Chaplin was "probably the most sadistic man" he ever met after working with him on the 1967 movie A Countess from Hong Kong, further stating he "was an egotistical tyrant and a penny-pincher."