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TIL that sunflowers can clean up radioactive waste. Certain radioactive isotopes are similar to the nutrients sunflowers normally need, so as they grow, they take up radiation out of the soil.

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QNnXk TIL the book 'Theory of Games and Economic Behavior', by mathematician John von Neumann and economist Oskar Morgenstern, led to the creation of an entirely new field of research, known as game theory, which is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions.
4X7dJ TIL of the Burnden Park Disaster, a crowd crush at a football match in Bolton, England in 1946 in which 33 people were killed. 30 minutes after the crush, with the dead laying at the side of the pitch, the game restarted.
gdgL TIL that in 1985, 2 men broke into Fran Drescher’s home and one of them raped Fran and her friend and gunpoint while Fran’s husband was tied up and forced to watch the ordeal.
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grnYL TIL artificial vanilla flavoring used to be made with castoreum, a sac located under a beaver's anus.