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Rafał Pocztarski

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Drosera capensis, commonly known as the Cape sundew, is a perennial rosette-forming carnivorous plant in the family Droseraceae. It is endemic to the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. As in all sundews, the leaves are covered in stalked, mucilage-secreting glands (or 'tentacles') that attract, trap, and digest arthropod prey. When prey is captured, the tentacles bend inward and the leaves curl around it, preventing escape and enhancing digestion by increasing the surface area of the leaf in contact with the prey. This time-lapse video shows a D. capensis leaf curling up around a Mediterranean fruit fly over a period of approximately six hours.Video credit: Scott Schiller

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June 1

Wreckage of American Airlines Flight 1420

1676 – Scanian War: The Swedish warship Kronan, one of the largest ships in the world at the time, sank at the Battle of Öland with the loss of around 800 men.
1857 – The Revolution of the Ganhadores, the first general strike in Brazil, began in Salvador, Bahia.
1974 – In an informal article in a medical journal, Henry Heimlich introduced the concept of abdominal thrusts, commonly known as the Heimlich maneuver, to treat victims of choking.
1988 – Group representation constituencies were introduced to the parliament of Singapore.
1999 – On landing at Little Rock National Airport in the U.S. state of Arkansas, American Airlines Flight 1420 overran the runway and crashed (wreckage pictured), resulting in 11 deaths.

Kitabatake Chikafusa (d. 1354)
Louisa Caroline Tuthill (d. 1879)
Tom Holland (b. 1996)
Faizul Waheed (d. 2021)

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Kenyan writer and activist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (pictured) dies at the age of 87.
In sumo, Ōnosato Daiki is promoted to yokozuna.
In association football, Liverpool win the Premier League title.
In the Surinamese general election, the National Democratic Party wins the most seats in the National Assembly.
In motor racing, Álex Palou wins the Indianapolis 500.

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