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TIL a donkey can mate with a zebra and produce an offspring called a "zebrass".

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mxM5R TIL the origin of the Stonehenge stones was only discovered after a lost core was returned after 62 years.
4bAb TIL all steel produced after 1945 is contaminated with background radiation because of the use of nuclear weapons. Such steel is unusable for many scientific and medical applications and steel made before 1945, often taken from sunken battleships, must be used instead.
9YQdD The research argues that gravitational waves give off echoes which, if confirmed, would prove that black holes don't exist and are, in fact, wormholes.
oP08 TIL that the most powerful pirate in history was Ching Shih, a Chinese woman that commanded the Red Flag Fleet, which the British, Portuguese and the Qing dynasty were unable to defeat. She also instituted a Pirate Code.
LQNG9 TIL that honey never spoils, and archaeologists have found perfectly preserved honey in ancient Egyptian tombs.