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TIL The extra bulbs with a red tip that you get with Christmas lights will make the lights after it blink.

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D1xRP TIL there is no Korean last name 'Lee'; rather, the second most common family name is 'I', but since single letter names are so uncommon in English, almost all Koreans with that family name choose to go by Lee when representing their name in Roman characters.
OEDe TIL Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
VBdop TIL that there are only 8 African American billionaires in America & a staggering 607 White Billionaires!
Pv0J TIL sunflowers can “remove up to 95% of uranium of contaminated water in 24 hours”. And “experiments in Chernobyl have demonstrated that they can concentrate on 55 kg of plant dry weight all the cesium and strontium radioactivity from an area of 75 m2”.
jNO0v TIL that daddy long legs are not the most venomous spider and actually belong to the order of opiliones. Although they are arachnids they are more closely related to scorpions then spiders and do not have any venemous glands