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TIL that California condor chicks were fed with condor puppets to increase egg laying rate and to avoid them imprinting on humans

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QJXn9 TIL Carrots were originally purple. The orange ones we are familiar with today started as a hybrid intended to be sweeter.
D1Bnr TIL that fruit ripening with ethylene gas started after a leaky gas main caused plants to grow abnormally. Dimitry Neljubow a Russian scientist was able to identify the chemical in 1901.
neXL7 TIL Nietzsche's opinion about poets from Henry Rollins of Black Flag: "Poets are those who muddy their waters to make them appear deep".
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