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TIL during his undergraduate years, Newton made college notes that detailed the movement of water from plants to leaves - 225 years before the natural phenomenon of transpiration was first widely proposed in 1895.

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7R0L TIL when John Dillinger was gunned down by the FBI in the streets of Chicago, pedestrians dabbed their handkerchiefs in his blood for souvenirs.
BrL6K TIL that the Prime Minister of Samoa one of the longest serving leaders in the world (21 years and counting). His party has been in power since 1982.
wAR7 TIL that the lower ranks of the US Navy can be sentenced to rations of bread and water for not more than 3 days as punishment for misconduct
0woeL TIL that an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 people speak Texas German, a German dialect which can be traced back German settlers to Texas
4XvEo TIL that Dexter Holland, lead singer of Offspring, was valedictorian of his school and had a masters in molecular biology before the band became famous. He since earned his PhD and published a paper on the use of computational molecular biological approaches to identify microRNA sequences in HIV