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TIL that the Venus flytraps plant puts out an extremely small magnetic field while catching bugs

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Wl4L TIL that one of the two Lesbians to win the Nobel Prize in Literature was a man. Odysseas Elytis, who won in 1979, hailed from the Greek island of Lesbos.
P19rg TIL the Supreme Court established "the reindeer rule" determining that sufficient secular elements can counterbalance religious components in a public display, meaning that municipalities include reindeer in addition to religious holiday displays to avoid violating the First Amendment.
nWNmG TIL that until at least 1684 some promising boy trebles were pressed into the service of the Chapel Royal choir just like recruits were pressed into the Royal Navy.
Xx1R TIL the ancient Egyptians believed the ebb and flow of the Nile was caused by the god Atum masturbating to ejaculation. As such, Pharoahs were sometimes required to ceremonially masturbate into the Nile.
MmQm TIL in 2004 a Texas man was put to death for killing his family in an arson attack. The jailhouse snitch admitted he lied, and top scientists/investigators have not been able to find any reason to think the house fire was anything other than a freak accident.