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TIL: Plants have to have ‘plant passports’ stamped on the side of their pots to travel overseas

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m1nAx TIL that a crocodile reached 39 feet in length. Sarcosuchus (nicknamed "SuperCroc") had a jaw so powerful that it could crush bone, which the animal used to hunt dinosaurs and other prey much larger than itself. SuperCroc weighed 8 tons, equal to two adult elephants, but went extinct with dinosaurs.
m1pgx TIL that thanks to Bromelain, a digestive enzyme found in some fruits, when you eat pineapple, the pineapple is eating you back! Same for kiwi and papaya.
MlQV TIL of the NaNach, a group of whimsical Chasidic Jews who dance to techno music on the streets of Israel. They drive around in trucks blasting techno music and are known to start flash-mob type dance parties throughout the country.
VM7aD TIL Geologists consider the Hudson River Valley to be a Fjord.
jN5Dp TIL the earliest recorded use of LOL as an initialism was for "little old lady" in the 1960s. During the Apollo mission, ferrite cores were used as transformers and acted as either a binary one or zero. The LOLs created the required software by weaving together sequences of one and zero cores.