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TIL wild marijuana grows all over Northern Japan.
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TIL there is a species of ant called the "trap-jaw ant" that can lock open its jaws 180 degrees and snap them shut so quickly that it can launch itself into the air, and attack prey biting it with a force equal to 300 times its own body weight.
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TIL The USA Conducted an Experiment in 1964 Where They Gathered 3 Young Physics Students, and Gave Them a Salary, and All Publicly Available Documents on Nuclear Weapons, and Told Them to Build an Atomic Bomb. They succeeded.
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TIL that due to English laws regarding cheese, Stilton the cheese cannot be manufactured in the village of Stilton, from where the cheese originally got its recipe and name.
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TIL of a Great year. A period of time that lasts 25,772 years and measures the rotation of the earths axis.
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TIL About Dr Gisella Perl, an inmate and female doctor at Auschwitz. She was instructed to tell Joseph Mengele of any pregnant women, so that he could experiment on them. Instead, she tried to save as many lives as possible by terminating pregnancies, and doing late stage births, without any drugs.