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TIL that butterfly pea flowers, used as ornamental plants and to colour gins like Empress 1908, is scientifically named Clitoria ternatea because it resembles a human vulva.

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nWver TIL that the sandbox tree, aka the 'dynamite tree' is covered in poison-filled spikes. Its pumpkin-shaped fruits, when ripe, explode and fling seeds at 250 km/h (160 mph).
Prvw TIL A Herd of Elephants Spontaneously Walked To the Home of the Man Who Rescued Them After He Died, Holding a Vigil
ANYXo TIL eating dates in the last 4 weeks before labour helps with birth
kOoWB TIL that it's estimated there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on earth, but there are more atoms in one grain of sand than there are stars in the universe... and I just can't wrap my head around that.
dDrRQ TIL that a married women keeping a male companion, maybe even for sexual favours, was a common practice in Medieval Italy. These men were called 'cicisbei'