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TIL that wild pigs throughout the Americas descend from pigs brought over on ships by the first Spanish explorers.

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x6Ae5 TIL That Amelia Earhart had a copilot when she disappeared, his name was Fred Noonan.
xV91g TIL that in 1951, a woman sitting in her Florida apartment caught on fire. When found the next day, all that was left was her backbone, her left foot and her skull, shrunk to the size of a cup. Nothing else in the apartment burned. Police were stumped. Some think it was spontaneous human combustion.
X7WE TIL: In 1943, WWII destroyer O'Bannon found itself too close to a surfaced Japanese submarine to aim its guns. US Sailors saved the ship by throwing potatoes at the Japanese crew running to the sub’s deck gun.
DXpv TIL in 1969, Carl Sagan wrote an essay under pen-name “Mr. X” about how “marijuana produced a very rich array of insights” in the book “Marihuana Reconsidered”, who enjoyed smoking marijuana quite frequently
DQ4YJ TIL that 50% of European men share DNA with King Tut, but only 1% of Egyptian men do.