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TIL trees can stimulate cloud production in order to cool down by producing substances known as monoterpenes

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kJ4P5 TIL: Strawberries aren't berries OR fruits, they are false fruits, and the tiny green "seeds" are the actual fruit, called achenes.
X00gE TIL The Iowa school for the blind had 12 students die in the schools history, only 1 got a gravestone.
ExkX TIL there is a huge catfish known as the Piraiba, one of which was reported as having swallowed a human whole in the 90s.
E1K9W TIL about Marion Delgado, a five year old who wrecked a passenger train by placing a 25 pound concrete slab on the tracks. When questioned by the police he shrugged, 'I couldn't break that big rock by myself, so I decided to let the train do it.'"
KOoGG TIL: Godzilla's roar was created by dragging a resin-coated leather glove along the loosened strings of a double bass.