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TIL Sunflowers Soak Up Nuclear Radiation
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TIL that in 1969, American Indians occupied Alcatraz Island, acting on an old law that granted them the right to reclaim abandoned federal land. They occupied Alcatraz for nearly two years.
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TIL: that the modern Olympic torch relay was invented by Adolf Hitler as a Nazi propaganda tool
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TIL that Bill Nye the Science Guy was the technical expert on the television show BattleBots.
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TIL that the World Chess Federation rearranges tournament matchups so that Iranians never have to play Israelis, because Iran does not recognize the existence of Israel
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TIL when actor Dylan McDermott was born his mom was 15 and his dad 17. His parents split and his mother was later killed by a boyfriend. At 15-years-old McDermott was adopted by his father's 3rd wife, she was 23. His stepmother is Eve Ensler, who wrote The Vagina Monologues, she got him into acting.