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TIL Petunias are a symbol of satanism (in 15th century England), anger and resentment

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NQL6 TIL The voice actor of Boo in Monsters, Inc. was so young, it was difficult to get her to stand in the recording studio. The solution: they followed her around with a microphone.
LkaBZ TIL about Stuckie the coon hound that in 1960 chased a racoon 28 feet up inside the hollow trunk of a tree, then got stuck up there until loggers cut the tree down in 1980. He was mummified and almost perfectly preserved due to the tannins in the tree and inaccessibility to predators.
wol16 TIL the USS Scorpion was lost at sea in May 1968 with 99 men lost. The wreckage was found almost two miles deep, making it impossible to determine the cause of accident. Underwater acoustics out of the Canary Islands heard the exact time of the implosion but were unaware it was the sub sinking.
Y8m7 TIL that preventable medical errors are estimated to kill 210,000+ hospital patients every year in the US.
KYbAR TIL that the Oneida cutlery company is descended from a free love commune founded in 1858. Despite not using birth control, the community of 200 had only 12 unplanned births in 20 years.