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TIL Pinecones are a type of fruit

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dDrPK TIL the last successful Fair catch kick in the NFL was in 1976
DQOLV TIL Glenn Close's father was a surgeon who worked in Africa with ebola, as well as a very tiny town in Wyoming.
5Y8k TIL a Roman serial killer was raped by a specially trained giraffe then torn apart by animals as a form of punishment
nWdwB TIL that the Large Blue Butterfly (Maculinea arion) is carnivorous in its caterpillar stage, feeding on the red ant (Myrmica sabuleti) larvae by mimicking the sound and scent of their queen ant to infiltrate their colonies. 40 years ago it became extinct in Britain but was reintroduced from Europe.
v1W6j TIL in 2013 a Brazilian football referee was killed and beheaded by spectators after he stabbed a player to death.