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TIL Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste (they are able to extract pollutants, including radioactive metal contaminants, through their roots and store them in the stems and leaves. Making them the international symbol of nuclear disarmament).

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GAX81 TIL that Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel, which translates as such: ‘I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison).’
pY4QO TIL about "Go motion" a stop motion technique created by Phil Tippet in which they animate puppets connected to computers that record movements, then just filming the puppet being articulated by the computer replaying the movements it had recorded, all in order to avoid adding artificial motion blur
p1vO TIL that Joe Son, an actor who played Random Task in Austin Powers, is currently serving a life sentence without parole
Dpyj TIL the World Health Organisation literally parachuted 14,000 cats into Borneo in the 1950’s
nM0P TIL that NBA players do not tend to come from poverty. Contrary to stereotype, “Growing up in a wealthier neighborhood is a major, positive predictor of reaching the N.B.A.” Black NBA players are about 30% less likely to have an unwed or teenage mother.