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TIL the Venus flytrap is only found natively within a 60 mile radius of Wilmington, North Carolina.

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78P0b TIL the song "Lesbian Seagull" from Beavis & Butt-Head Do America was not written for the film as a comedy bit, but already existed as a real song written in 1979 in response to a scientific study of long-term monogamous lesbian behavior observed in seagulls on Santa Barbara Island.
7rwwM TIL the town of Two Egg, Florida has their own local monster, described as a ‘small Bigfoot’. His name is the Two Egg Stump-Jumper
pY5j8 TIL about Flaco, an owl that escaped from the Central Park zoo. The WSJ called him a peeping tom for frequently being caught looking in apartment windows throughout Manhattan. 1 year after escape he collided into a building, his necropsy revealed large traces of rat poison and pigeon herpesvirus.
KYmaa TIL about the Scoppio Del Carro in Florence, Italy. This 300 year old Easter celebration shoots a flaming mechanical bird into a cart full of fireworks. A successful explosion means good luck in the future!
X0XxE TIL Years ago, when two children were born within 12 months of each other, people called them "Irish twins." When a mom had three kids within three years, they were called "Irish triplets." This was due to a derogatory stereotype of poor Irish Catholic families having lots of kids close together.