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TIL that Venus flytraps are native to North Carolina

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xVPpD Today I learned that Bryan Ware created the Crayon Initiative that collects used crayons from restaurants and melts them down to make new crayons for children's hospitals.
gMaG8 TIL during Victorian England kaleidoscopes were such a craze, people were distracted and obsessed over them like today's smartphones.
loGJ1 TIL: The entire EU plus a dozen other countries including the US, Brazil, Turkey, and Kazakhstan are part of a huge treaty requiring countries to pursue child support payments levied in other member countries.
mmKY TIL No one knows where the word “dog” originally came from. Appearing without cognates in Old English, it displaced the more common “hound” within 400 years and went on to find its way into 7 other European languages.
EVZ0 TIL : The New York Times wrote an article about every single September the 11th Victim