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TIL that Sunflowers are important for decontaminating soils contaminated by hazardous materials

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47La TIL that the infamous “Florida Man” phenomenon is caused by the state’s transparency laws, which give the media access to all arrest reports.
XEanP TIL While filming the 2000 hit movie, Castaway, Tom Hanks received a cut and got a staph infection that nearly killed the Academy Award winning actor. The cut gave him blood poisoning, Hanks was in the hospital for 3 days and production of the movie was shut down for 3 weeks.
b9L87 TIL That nobody really knows how to correctly play Beethoven's famous "Für Elise" - original notes were never found and were published years after Beethoven's death by Ludwig Nohl. Pianists are still arguing how to play this piece.
y6eM TIL that 70% of Mongolian nomads have solar power since 2013. The sun shines 250 days on average each year in Mongolia. It shines, even during the frigid winter days, on the hundreds of thousands of nomads who still roam the steppes, herding animals and living in dome-like tents calling gers.
6915w TIL that an actor called Noel Gugliemi plays a character called "Hector" in 6 different films and 3 TV shows