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TIL Sunflowers Soak Up Nuclear Radiation

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W7QXL TIL that Vincent van Gogh was a failed missionary and art school dropout, suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions, drank and smoked heavily, spent time in psychiatric hospitals, lived with an alcoholic prostitute, and was a commercial failure when he died by suicide at age 37.
PNGE TIL there’s a 37% chance that the Cascadia fault will produce an earthquake within in the next 50 years powerful enough to destroy the Pacific NW.
PYx5L TIL that traumatic experiences in childhood have long-term health effects on people and have a strong correlation with health issues in adulthood.
LBev TIL once 4th largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea, has declined to only 10% of its original size since the 1960’s. The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters.
nk67 TIL Odds of being attacked by a candiru (penis invading fish) are “about the same as being struck by lightning while simultaneously being eaten by a shark.”