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TIL- Pistachios are spontaneously combustible.

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WOr8 TIL the extinct Passenger Pigeon bird went from being the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world during 19th century, to extinct in 20th century due to massive hunting and habitat destruction. Martha, the world’s last passenger pigeon, died alone in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo USA
woeaE TIL The first (UAV) unmanned, remote controlled, video camera guided aircraft assault drone was built in 1942
l7a0a Til that Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered one of his sons to kill himself.
D1vLV TIL that in 2016 Belgian cyclist Femke Van den Driessche was discovered to have a hidden motor in her bicycle, the first proven instance of "Mechanical Doping"
ZpWGp TIL Jessica Alba was kidnapped at the age of 15, and was found tied up in the trunk of an abandoned car