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TIL that Venus flytraps are native to North Carolina

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m0Zy TIL that a child was raised in isolation and abuse for 13 years, when she was found she had a mental age equivalent to a 13 month old baby.
1g8P TIL Sears used to sell entire houses in a DIY kit
GYVyE TIL about Chris Lemons, a oil rig diver, who survived for nearly 40 minutes under water after his umbilical cord was cut during an accident. With him he had a emergency air tank with approximately 5 minutes of air
0dmBA TIL that the Blériot XI is the world's oldest flyable plane having first been built in 1909.
9Ywer TIL that in the early 2000s, Sony needed more of a mineral named coltan to supply the public's insatiable demand for PS2's. This mineral is mainly found in the Eastern Congo, and Sony had to negotiate directly with a radical militant group occupying the area in order to mine it.