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TIL the West Australian Christmas Tree (Nuytsia floribunda) is a parasitic tree that sends out roots up to 150m (492ft) to attach themselves to any nearby trees and plants to draw water and nutrients from them. Almost all species are susceptible to attack.

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eLk4 TIL that 50 years before women were allowed to enroll into medical school, Margaret Ann Bulkley dressed as a man for 56 years to study medicine and become her alter-ego, Dr James Barry. It was only when she died in 1865 that her secret was exposed after 46 years working as an army medical officer.
wX5W TIL in Iowa it is illegal to simulate intoxication in public
1awyV TIL - When Coca Cola Launched Dasani Water In The UK Their Slogan Was ‘Bottled Spunk’ & 'Can’t Live Without Spunk’; Oblivious That In The UK Spunks Means Semen.
xmPg TIL that during the cold war, when navy divers repairing a whale enclosure heard a human-like voice saying “out, out, out,” and got out of the water to see nobody, they found out that a beluga whale named “Noc” had learned to mimic human speech and was trying to communicate with them.
Envp TIL that in 1899 a bolt of lightning killed a man as he stood in his backyard in taranto, italy thirty years later his son was killed in the same way and in the place. On October 8, 1949 Rolla primarda, the grandson of the first victim and the son of the second, became the third