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TIL Plants Can Recognize and Communicate With Relatives to Work Together

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rRwJ4 TIL in the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff, and would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" So, he hired his Scottish maid. Williamina Fleming ran a team for decades, classified tens of thousands of stars, & discovered white dwarfs and the Horsehead Nebula.
Xxl8 TIL- Typically, three drugs are used in lethal injection. Sodium thiopental is used to induce unconsciousness, pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) to cause muscle paralysis and respiratory arrest, and potassium chloride to stop the heart.
dDNQ7 TIL that sailors call the Suez Canal, the "Marlboro Canal", because of having to hand out crates of Marlboro to Egyptian pilots and authorities as an extortion fee.
J1Y9B TIL peanuts grow through a process called “pegging,” in which the “peg” of the plant penetrates the soil
K5XJ TIL In 1969 after being told the SF Black Panthers were “engaged primarily in feeding breakfast to children” Hoover’s reply implied the agent’s career would be helped by supplying evidence they were “a violence-prone organization seeking to overthrow the Government by revolutionary means”.