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TIL that flying insects make up less than 5% of a wild Venus Flytraps diet

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oBRro TIL that when spun and dropped a large distance, a ball will glide.
VBM44 TIL that the reason the middle finger is offensive is it was used as an explicit reference to the male genitalia. Greek playwright Aristophanes puns in his comedy The Clouds about dactylic (finger) rhythm, with a character gesturing first with his middle finger and subsequently with his crotch.
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