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TIL those maple seed "helicopters" are called samaras!

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467R TIL that Tim Russ, Tuvok from “Star Trek: Voyager”, was also the “We aint found shit!” trooper from “Spaceballs”
KPVR TIL that FDR founded an organization to find a cure for polio, and believed that if everyone gave only a dime, polio would be eradicated. Because of this motto, after his death in 1945, FDR’s face was put on the dime, and his organization was renamed “The March of Dimes.”
aPlJ TIL Gentlemen should rest merry - not merry gentlemen should rest. There’s a comma you don’t sing in the Christmas carol “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen”
AOMa TIL that in 1981, the Russians successfully landed on the surface of the hottest planet on our Solar System, Venus. The Venera 13 probe later returned the first color images of the surface of Venus.
4b0g TIL there’s a waterfall where nobody knows where the water goes. Minnesota’s Devil’s Kettle Falls dumps into a giant pothole with no seeable exit. Researchers have poured dye, ping-pong balls, even logs into it, then watched the lake for any sign of them. So far, none have ever been found.