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TIL those maple seed "helicopters" are called samaras!

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epaDE TIL about a phenomenon called "delayed implantation" in grizzly bears. The embryo will start gestation only after the mama bear has gained enough weight to avoid death by starvation during hibernation.
nWP99 TIL that the galaxy in No Man's Sky has more stars than the Milky Way
b6XD4 TIL in Hautefaye, France, on August 16, 1870, local nobleman and city councilmember Alain de Monéys, was lynched by a local crowd mistaking him for a Prussian
grLa7 TIL A 15th-century chapel, said to have been visited by Joan of Arc, is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The chapel was relocated from France to Long Island in 1927. Then in 1966, the chapel was moved to the campus of Marquette University where it remains today.
VMKQD TIL that Freddie Figgers, who was abandoned in a dumpster as a baby, became very familiar with computers and electronics at a young age and now owns his own company (worth 62 million USD) that sells wireless glucose meters for diabetics