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TIL that the Dancing Plant (Codariocalyx motorius) will move its leaves when subjected to loud music, but we do not know exactly how and why it does this.

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GA1ZQ TIL that in the 1940s, filmmaker Orson Welles was under investigation by the FBI as they believed he had ties to communist activities because of his film “Citizen Kane”. He was considered such a threat that the FBI had him on a list of people who should be apprehended in case of a national emergency
WgYo TIL that nobody knows the exact number of people of African descent living in France because it officially declares itself ‘colour blind’ so the law forbids official surveys accounting for racial or ethnic origin.
awNky TIL that the first jazz performance of "Someday My Prince Will Come" was by the Ghetto Swingers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. To avoid causing controversy, the band had to change the program name from "Music by Frank Churchill" to "Music from Disney's Snow White"
9KNX TIL A fighter jet pilot shot his own plane down by flying into his own bullets
nejab TIL A British Fertility Doctor Impregnated Women With His Own Sperm 600 Times.