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TIL England has lost 97% of its wildflower meadows since the 1930's 🌿🌻

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geND TIL The “real Mafia” did not allow the producers of “The Godfather” to use the word Mafia in the movie. They even sent “family” members to the set to monitor filming. That’s how producers discovered Lenny Montana aka “Luca Brasi”
0rwR TIL Stephen Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, is a marine biologist.
a8wV9 TIL of "Antiaris toxicaria", also known as the "Upas", a tree whose latex is so toxic it is used to poison the tips of blowdarts and arrows in Southeast Asian cultures. It has sometimes been regarded as the most poisonous tree in the world.
D1D6r TIL that the notorious vanishing hijacker's actually alias was Dan Cooper and not D B Cooper. D B Cooper was a mistake by the press that stuck.
N7y9b TIL that three suburban towns on eastern Long Island are seeing skyrocketing cancer rates. Meanwhile, breast cancer alone on all of Long Island is 13 to 18 times higher than the state average, and has been for decades.