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TIL using camouflage, the Orchid Mantis more effectively attracts insects, its prey, then REAL orchid blossoms.

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Kmaw TIL Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation in Latin. The Vatican reporter who broke the story was the only one in the room who could actually understand the announcement.
Y7jAd TIL that the Statue of Liberty can expand up to 3 inches in the summer due to the heat, causing its copper structure to stretch and shift.
YBbB TIL there was a 1934 plan to dam and fill the Hudson River, adding 10 square miles of land to Manhattan
5VJVD TIL the Seinfeld episode The Implant popularised the term "double dipping", George gets in a fist-fight over the act
6Ew6X TIL that 300 years ago, Sir Isaac Newton lost the equivalent of millions of dollars in the first stock market bubble.