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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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x6P70 TIL the chromosomal cap, called telomere, grows shorter during cell division. Researchers also found out that most old people have shorter telomeres, that some telomeres had never shortened in those who lived past 100 years old, and that cancer cells don't die because their telomeres don't shorten.
VMZBp TIL Whales and Dolphins closest living relatives is the Hippopotamus, just as Chimpanzees are the closest living relative to Homo Sapiens.
JYrO4 TIL the Steel Drum was created in Trinidad and Tobago after the British banned African percussion music and traditional stick-fighting after the Canboulay Riots in 1890. Steel Drums later emerged made from frying pans, dustbin lids, and, of course, oil drums due to the country's oil resources.
60yJ TIL A substitute teacher was fired after she asked her 4th grade students for dating advice. She had her class to help her decide between two men she was seeing.
9YnQ7 TIL the chorus in Asereje by Las Ketchup isn't complete nonsense, just a Spanish take on the lyrics of Rappers Delight (I said a hip-hop, the hippy, etc)