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TIL the town of Blowout, Texas, got its name when lightning struck a cave and ignited thousands of tons of ammonia-rich bat shit inside it

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7jjM TIL that after large animals went extinct, such as the mammoth, avocados had no method of seed dispersal, which would have lead to thier extinction without early human farmers.
WXZ8 TIL, After bombing of Hiroshima some people moved to Nagasaki, 165 of these survived both the atomic bombings
EgVLo TIL that there was a short lived Spanish colony founded in 1526 in present day South Carolina called "San Miguel de Gualdape", becoming one of the first European colonies in the continental U.S.
BrD5D TIL the founder of the Cheesecake Factory was a member of a cult called Sufism Reoriented, and invested millions in building their house of worship.
wLe71 TIL The term slave has its origins in the word slav. The slavs, who inhabited a large part of Eastern Europe, were taken as slaves by the Muslims of Spain during the ninth century AD.