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TIL That Venus Flytraps are native to North Carolina
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TIL the Star Wars planet Tatooine was named after an extant Tunisian city named Tataouine
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TIL Jeff Bezos's biological father didn't know his son existed until a journalist tracked him down while writing a biography in 2013
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TIL Chinese guerrillas during WWII were given bags of flour, mixed with the powdery white high explosive HMX, to bypass Japanese checkpoints. The resulting mixture could safely be cooked into pancakes and eaten. Leftover dough and pastries could still be used as explosives. Code name: “Aunt Jemima.”
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TIL Mexican shamans began to use Coca-Cola in their religious rituals to heal worshippers. When Pepsi discovered this, they offered commissions to shamans to use Pepsi instead. When Coke began paying too, rival religious groups were formed based on which soft drink they used.
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TIL a wow player “Bradster” has 36 wow accounts and conducts raids with himself on 11 computers