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TIL That Venus Flytraps are native to North Carolina
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TIL Movie posters are printed on both sides to increase saturation of the colors when back-lit in a movie poster case [example in the comments]
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TIL the dark-grey color we see when we close our eyes isn't black, but Eigengrau (intrinsic grey)
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TIL Botum Sakor is the largest national park of Cambodia. Only very little on-location research has been done and published on the biodiversity of the area so far and no scientific investigation has ever been carried out for the remote interior of the park. The human population is unknown
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TIL a town bully was killed in Skidmore & 40+ people witnesses it but claimed they saw nothing. “ I can’t think of anyone who’d seen it (the shooting) feel any different than you would about the people who invented penicillin. Nobody tried to hang them for finding a way to kill a germ,” said one.
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TIL that Ada Lovelace - a woman born in 1815 was the first to recognize that computers are more than just adding machines. She was co-responsible for the creation of the 'Analytical Engine' and is widely recognized as the world’s first Computer Programmer.