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

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wLWyM TIL a 9-man Special Forces team landed on top of 10,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and fought their way out after making barricades from enemy corpses and jumping off a cliff.
6g98 TIL that there are bands of wild macaque monkeys living near the Silver River in Florida, USA.
wL77o TIL that California’s Death Valley contains the lowest point in North America — a surreal landscape of vast salt flats. The basin sits 282 feet (86 m) below sea level where a temporary lake may form after heavy rainstorms.
Egr4w TIL In 1788, a British fur trader recruited 50 Chinese from Macao and Guangzhou to Vancouver Island for building a fortress and schooner. Spaniards arrived in 1789, fought with the British, and what happened to the Chinese became a mystery as some escaped and others may have been killed
mxgwy TIL that the wandering albatross can travel 10,000 miles (16,090 km) without flapping its wings even once.