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Today I learned that the blue component of the light spectrum is essential for phenolic compounds (flavonoids, phenolic acids, etc.) production and accumulation in higher plants. This is possible thanks to photoreceptor signaling, especially involving cryptochromes.

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b0Mp TIL that in the 90s a Penn State researcher introduced pigs to joy-stick controlled video games, and in weeks they would begin to “beg to play video games. They beg to be the first ones out of their pens, then they trot up the ramp to play.”
OQ96 TIL the US Supreme Court upheld a three-strikes life-imprisonment sentence for $230 worth of fraud
oRlZA TIL a number of people, including a group of Swedish researchers, tried to replicate the experiment shown in the documentary Super Size Me(2004). None of them were able to get the same results as the documentary creator.
KYO8J TIL that it is 100% legal to leave/abandon your baby at a firestation in the USA due to safe haven laws.
pY9BO TIL that Bugs Bunny got his name by accident in 1940 when a model sheet was hand-labelled "Bugs' Bunny" to indicate it was for animator Ben "Buggsy" Hardaway to work on. The possessive apostrophe was dropped when staff thought that was the rabbit's actual name - and it stuck.