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TIL that Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth

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4k96N TIL the Dyatlov Pass incident, the mysterious unexplained death of nine skiers in 1959, sparked sixty years of conspiracy theories. Theories such as soviet weapons test, yeti attack & UFO heat ray, but was finally solved in 2021 and shown to have been a slab avalanche.
RLNQ TIL that on April 18th, 1930 (Good Friday) the BBC announced that the world was indeed “Good” and there was nothing worth reporting in the news.
vPdpD TIL that because earthquakes kept destroying Spanish-built buildings like churches, houses, and settlements in Colonial era Philippines, a new architectural style was created solely to withstand the tremors——Earthquake Baroque.
XPoE TIL that Eminem’s daughter Hailie Scott (also known as Hailie Jade Mathers), graduated as Suma Cum Laude in High School and currently taking up Psychology at Michigan State University
ZnWQ TIL that because of the decline in bee population, apple farmers in china are now pollinating the trees manually, using a paintbrush.