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TIL that Venus flytraps are native to North Carolina

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9YolG TIL that David Vogel, then-president of production at Disney, was fired from his position for buying the rights to the script for Sixth Sense for $3M, because he bought it without permission.
nWy8P TIL the Denver International Airport is larger than Manhattan, operating on 53 square miles of land.
wobE7 TIL an elephant helped the British war effort in WW1. The military requisitioned many horses, thus a circus elephant in Sheffield named Lizzie was repurposed to transport munitions and scrap, a job that usually required 3 horses. Other exotic animals, such as camels, were also used for the same job.
epgm6 TIL Facing a major banking and public debt crisis in 1340, Florence elected an executive council consisting of a butcher, a used cloth salesman, a dyer, a notary and a member of the Machiavelli family. They saved the state by enacting a radical plan of restructuring and re-funding the public debt
W7G7Y TIL humans do not have 100,000 kilometers of blood vessels, it's more like 9,000-19,000 kilometers