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TIL that 6,000 Mexican textile workers were massacred in 1907

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gMMrD TIL that the pangolin has naturally occurring scales made of keratin, acting as armor defense against predators. It is the only mammal with this trait.
GaeJ TIL: South Africa has no legally defined capital city. Power is shared between Cape Town (Parliament), Bloemfontein (Administrative), Pretoria (President & Cabinet) and Johannesburg (Constitutional Court).
VBEjm Today I learned that filberts (which I grew up enjoying) and hazelnuts (which I thought I'd never tried) are the same thing (and in the UK, they're called cobnuts).
9YpoQ TIL Lays marketed a low calorie "WOW" brand of chips that made consumers crap their pants. The main ingredient, Olestra, is a fat substitute which allows for frying without calories being added. The problem is your body can't absorb it. Consumers suffered from cramping, diarrhea, and anal leakage.
j6nwR TIL a woman named Susan Bennett spent four hours a day, every day, in July 2005, recording nonsensical phrases and sentences without knowing why. She didn't know until 2011, after a friend who had purchased the newly released iPhone 4s emailed her, that she was the voice of Apple's Siri assistant.