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TIL that those white flowers you can blow are in fact the same plants as those yellow flowers you see everywhere.

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mdap TIL a 10-year-old girl accidentally invented a molecule during her fifth grade science class.
4XLXN TIL WWE’s The Undertaker is afraid of cucumbers. Paul Bearer watched The Undertaker, “throw up all over a Waffle House because there was a cucumber floating in his iced tea.” Bearer used to prank the Deadman by placing cucumber slices in his hat and gloves.
ep4P6 TIL of Feodor Protar, "The Saint of Beaver Island". A European actor who came to a small island in Lake Michigan to seek enlightenment. However, he ended up becoming a doctor to the locals who lacked one, despite having no formal medical training. When he died, they built a tomb and monument for him
OKKg TIL that a blackout in New York City (1977) contributed to the growth of hip hop music as looting allowed a number of people to get access to expensive DJ equipment from electronic stores. From this moment on, Hip Hop, barely known outside the Bronx, grew at an astounding rate.
78BAO TIL some fiberglass insulation not only looks like cotton candy, it smells like it too