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TIL If microwaved, a sliced grape erupts into a fireball of plasma, an ionized gas that is considered the fourth state of matter.

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DQLgY TIL of Eva Saxl, a type 1 diabetic who ran out of insulin during WW2 and made insulin from water buffaloes. It saved the lives of over 200 people in the Shanghai Ghetto.
yVWDl TIL after the Panama-Pacific International Exposition ended, one of its exhibitions, The Ohio Building, was sold at auction. It was then mounted on skids and dragged to the marina where it was pulled aboard two barges and embarked on its voyage floating to San Carlos harbor.
oBvlr TIL during a 1994 blackout in Los Angeles, 911 received calls about a sinister looking cloud in the sky. It was the milky way.
awxB9 TIL Maui, Hawaii has been named as the best island in the world for 20 consecutive years in the annual Conde Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards.
7v8b TIL of the Bald Knobbers, a vigilante group from Missouri who killed and arrested members of the KKK and the Confederacy while wearing hooded horned masks at night