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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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X75P TIL that a town called Redditt, Ontario had a highway 666 running through it, but a church successfully petitioned to have it renumbered, so that their address wasn’t on the “highway to hell.”
v16Lx TIL that the 'Change my Mind' meme guy drinking out of the coffee cup was the voice of Alan Powers aka 'The Brain' on PBS' Arthur
neGD7 TIL about an octopus named Otto who caused a power outage by shooting water at the 2000 watt spotlight over his tank which was seemingly annoying him. Otto is an interesting octopus who has also been caught juggling hermit crabs, throwing rocks at the glass and re-arranging the contents of his tank
X0eL8 TIL death clerk is the informal title for the US Supreme Court employee who tracks pending executions across the US to coordinate with justices on legal actions, even outside of work hours
R9vQ TIL a woman spent 12 years in a Kansas mental institution against her will after being diagnosed as a schizophrenic because they assumed she was mentally ill and speaking gibberish. She was really Tarahumara Indian from Mexico who spoke a rare dialect.