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TIL that almost every species of fig has its own species of wasp

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N70eN TIL that Led Zeppelin twice attempted to put Neil Armstrong on album covers and failed by mistakenly using Frank Borman and Buzz Aldrin instead of Neil Armstrong photo on Led Zeppelin II & Physical Graffiti respectively.
8aOJG TIL that Charlie and the waitress are married in real life!
jNxMa TIL European Court of Human Rights finds that accusing people on social media of sexual crimes without proof or conviction is an Article 8 violation and that European states have a duty to take action against it.
rm7w TIL that weapons made of iron existed before development of smelting. The source of iron was iron meteorite.
1aQNO TIL that the collapse of the Soviet Union directly correlated with the resurgence of Cuba’s amazing coral reef. Without Russian supplied synthetic fertilizers and ag practices, Cubans were forced to depend on organic farming. This led to less chemical runoff in the oceans.