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TIL When bitten by caterpillars, plants send Chemical SOS signals to parasitic wasps that attack the caterpillars.

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4XRma TIL “Square Waves” occur on the ocean when perpendicular wind currents meet, and are extremely dangerous and capable of sinking ships
V1km TIL that John Cho, the actor that plays Harold in Harold and Kumar, Is 40 Years Old
VaN4 TIL that during the San Francisco Police Department Strike of 1975, the SFPD clashed with the law and the Mayor. Eventfully a bomb was detonated on the Mayor’s lawn with a sign reading “Don’t Threaten Us.”
Z8R4D TIL As of 2018, 73% of active female senators and over 50% of women in the house of representatives were girl scouts alums
wLdjY TIL that the profane Hungarian response to being given an unreasonably heavy workload is "bekergettek tatott szajjal a faszerdobe," or “They chased me into the dick-forest with a wide open mouth”