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TIL Sunflowers Soak Up Nuclear Radiation

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N74gQ TIL that US forces bombarded North Korea so thoroughly during the Korean War that by the end of the war crews had to jettison their payload at sea because they had run out of things to bomb.
WEmL TIL that Elvis Presley was obsessed with Karate and even used his skills to fight off 4 attackers who came at him during a show.
dXXK TIL Disney hired kodak to make the pavement in their parks a certain hue of pink, to make their grass look greener (by wearing out the red receptors in your eyes).
vAM8 TIL that the iconic Nokia 3310s battery capacity is 3 - 4 times less than an average smartphone today.
0wMyN TIL about 4'33", read four thirty-three. It's a music piece by experimental composer John Cage, and instructs the performer(s) to not play the their instruments for the entire four minutes, thirty-three seconds.