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TIL that gorillas fart almost all the time because their diet consists almost entirely of plant matter which produces large amounts of gas when digested.

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kJvoB TIL Bono from U2 was named after a hearing aid shop in Dublin
9wx9D TIL of a courtier, Jeffrey Hudson, in the court of King Charles I of England who was only 18 inches tall. He challenged a normal-height man to a duel with pistols over an insult. His opponent came to the duel armed with a water squirt gun. Hudson shot him in the head with a real gun, killing him.
WkWoA TIL that sunflowers are capable of cleaning heavy toxins such as arsenic and even uranium from soil.
OGDDR TIL the creation of the first multivitamin was by a man named Forrest C. Shaklee in 1915
9wA9B TIL that trees existed for tens of millions of years before other organisms developed enzymes to digest them. Dead trees just laid on the ground and didn’t rot.