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TIL plants may have a form of vision/sight, and one plant in particular, Boquila trifoliolata, can change its leaf size, color, and shape to match living and/or artificial plants on which it is climbing.

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8Oo8 TIL of Mark DeFriest. Believed to be an autistic savant, DeFreist was sentenced to four years in prison for ‘stealing’ tools left to him in his father’s will in 1979. Able to to memorize and reproduce jailers’ keys simply by looking at them, he’s been imprisoned 36 years due to multiple escapes.
50k TIL there are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Possible Chess Games.
GAggj TIL a psychological process called Misattribution of arousal where people mistakenly assume what is arousing them.
GK8J TIL a 16 year old boy was jailed at Rikers for three years without a trial or conviction.
d409 TIL that each Voyager spacecraft has a gold record on it that includes (among other things) a copy of Johnny B. Goode