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TIL the Mediterranean orchid Ophrys that employs sexual deceit to get pollination done by a species of bee by evolving one of its petal to bear resemblance to the female of the bee in size colour & markings thus attracting the male bee into pseudocopulation, pollinating the flowers in the process

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781br TIL about Gorham's disease, also known as vanishing bone disease, is a rare skeletal disorder where bones progressively disappear and are replaced by abnormal blood vessels or fibrous tissue. It can affect any part of the skeleton and its cause is unknown.
poVG TIL President Jimmy Carter was a Nuclear Engineer and visited Three Mile Island during the crisis there. He had previously helped dismantle a damaged reactor in Canada.
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