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TIL America had drive in photo development booths

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0wmQA TIL Jean Keene, "Eagle Lady". An activist who fed bald eagles on her farm in Homer, Alaska. She fed an estimated 227kg of fish every day and environmentalists are concerned that she changed the eagles migratory pattern. Homer now forbids bird feeding as they have become a general public menace.
6Ea1l TIL in 1908 a meteorite over Siberia exploded with the force of a 12 megaton bomb, flattened 80 million trees, and likely killed at least three people.
W7XZ4 TIL that The Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic is a Roman Catholic chapel decorated with the skeletal remains of over 40,000 people. Originally a cemetery, it's now a well-known tourist spot.
aKvJ TIL in 2015 the opal was discovered to be the first fully warm blooded fish that circulates heat thoughout its body much like mammals and birds
6E76w TIL that "The War of the Worlds" plot arose from H.G. Wells wondering "if Martians did to Britain what the British had done to the [indigenous] Tasmanians?", which most modern scholars characterize as a genocide.