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TIL Venus Fly Traps grow their flowers far away to avoid killing their pollinators

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MEJb TIL TBS speeds up reruns of Seinfeld (and other shows) for more room to show advertisements
X0DDj TIL during the Apollo 16 lunar mission in 1972, the crew brought a lunar rock first collected by Apollo 12 in 1969 BACK to the moon as part of a magnetic field experiment. The rock ended up travelling back and forth between moon and Earth twice.
LkOjP TIL that when a man had a heart attack at a grocery story in rural Minnesota, 20 people lined up and performed CPR on him for over an hour and a half until paramedics arrived - and he survived
neW6P TIL Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447
QMY9 TIL that anorexia has the highest mortality rate, between 5 and 10 percent, of any mental illness. Half of the deaths are by suicide, the other half from medical complications.