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TIL Water lilies grow up from the bottom of the pond like normal plants.

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eWkk TIL that in the US, in order to be legally called “chocolate”, a product must contain cocoa butter. Phrases like “chocolatey” and “chocolate flavored” are used for products that do not contain cocoa butter, but instead use other vegetable oils. These have a different taste than “real chocolate”.
dZy9 TIL there are hundreds of 1000-year-old underground tunnel systems in Bavaria, and nobody really knows who built them or what they’re for.
e0pn6 TIL in 1982, a man named Larry Walters attached 45 helium-filled balloons to a lawn chair and took flight to a height of 16,000 feet. He did so because he was denied entry in the US Air Force due to poor eyesight.
dLaB TIL Philip Morris discovered that its new fire-safe cigarettes were instead much more apt to cause fires. Their response was to fire the scientist who told them this.
oBLvL TIL Rugby peaked in popularity in Germany shortly before WW2 with them beating France twice and with the Nazi Minister of War, Albert Speer being a big proponent of the sport. It was decimated after WW2 when a majority of the German players had died