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TIL about "The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law", an Austro-Hungarian center-left Joke Political Party made to mock the cautious and measured approach of some mainstream political parties of the time.

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e0PLD TIL a man from New Zealand memorized every french word in the french scrabble dictionary and won the French Scrabble Championship. He still doesn't speak any french.
e0Ak5 TIL that plants respond to stimuli as intelligent beings. When researchers played an audiotrack of caterpillars munching on leaves, plants secreted chemicals to make their own leaves more resistant. They can also sense gravity and the presence of water, and produce their own neurotransmitters.
ZVVp TIL Rhode Island gets 3% bigger at low tide.
R7Mej TIL of a religious cult known as the "Prince Philip Movement", located on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. It's followers worship Prince Philip and believe that he is a divine being.
NxZe TIL that The Writers and Directors Guilds of America fined George Lucas $250,000 and tried to have Star Wars V pulled from theatres because he put the credits at the end of the movie rather than the beginning; a highly unusual choice at the time.