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TIL: Pantone 448 C, the “world’s ugliest color” according to research, is used by many European countries on their tobacco products to dissuade people from smoking.

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KORB6 TIL pineapples are actually in a proto-carnivorous plant family called bromeliads. Water trapped in their crowns supports thriving mini-ecosystems, whose residents and their droppings are absorbed for nutrients (not energy) through their leaves, as most plants can actually do.
9LvB TIL the US Homeownership Rate Is Now the Lowest Since 1989
R4ZQ TIL Beavers’ anal secretions are used to make artificial vanilla flavoring and it can legally be called “natural flavoring.”
BgrGd TIL About Old Rip - a horned frog that survived 30 years in a time capsule & was the inspiration for the Looney Tunes frog who sand "Hello my baby"
Z8kNG Til that killer whales are such apex predators they hunt and kill terrestrial mammals such as moose and deer, When swimming between islands in North America