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TIL that there is a plant mutation known as phyllody, in which flower parts develop into leaves.

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xVNo5 TIL that Hitler was a vegetarian and would give vivid and gruesome descriptions of animal slaughter to dissuade his colleagues from eating meat.
yVO7w TIL that bears who develop a taste for human food are put in a sanctuary and given a job testing camping coolers. A cooler has to last 60 minutes to be certified Bear Resistant.
d841j TIL that Laika is not the first animal to travel into space. The title actually goes to a bunch of fruit flies aboard a V2 rocket launched in 1947. They were later recovered alive.
695Em TIL Freud liked cocaine so much that he would give it to friends and family as a gift.
a8DAo TIL fish aren’t “real” in the way other life forms are, because they don’t form their own distinctive clade. They are instead “mixed in” the phylogenetic trees of other creatures that cannot be classified as “fish.”