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TIL - There’s a tree whose fruit naturally explodes, shooting its seeds up to 100m away.

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x6py0 TIL According to the July 16, 2012, television documentary The Batmobile, ventriloquist Jeff Dunham owns the original Batmobile used in the Tim Burton film Batman, which he had outfitted with a Corvette engine to make it street legal.
d8MOE TIL When the Vikings made it to Constantinople during the 9th century AD, some of them carved their names in runic inscriptions inside Hagia Sophia - still visible to this day.
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