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TIL saltwater can kill plants. Many mangrove tree species are able to surviving in seawater by filtering out as much as 90 percent of the salt as it enters their roots.

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5Y1Q8 TIL about how British forces burned the city of Cork in Ireland in 1920 as an act of retribution in the Irish War of Independence
8aKEX Today I learned that the First Federal Congress of the United States met on March 4, 1789. Its first official act was to adjourn the meeting for failure to achieve a quorum. It would first achieve a quorum on April 1, 1789.
5o0k TIL: The majority of child abuse perpetrators are women.
d8lpr TIL that there is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for the reconstruction of the old Penn Station, as it was from 1910-1963.
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