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TIL The venus flytrap utilizes osmosis to change the shape and size of cells within the trap to trigger their rapid trap closure.

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gxNb TIL that after Bob Dylan offered The Beatles marijuana when he first met them in 1964 he was shocked to find out they weren’t regular smokers. Dylan had misheard the lyric ‘I can’t hide’ from 'I Want To Hold Your Hand’ as 'I get high’.
d8wp7 TIL That Psychologist George Stratton wore goggles that inverted his vision for 8 straight days. By day 4, his brain had begun correcting the inversion
njb9 TIL: A modern, 13 part Cosmos series is being produced by Neil Tyson and Seth MacFarlane, and is set to air on Fox in 2014
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