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TIL jaguars have such powerful jaws that they kill their prey by biting into the brain directly through the skull.

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6E8Y7 TIL that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Ramzi Yousef (the 1993 World Trade Center bomber), and Timothy McVeigh (the Oklahoma City bomber), all became friends in prison, and regularly discussed religion and politics until McVeigh's execution.
0ddbM TIL: The USA Declared the Marianas trench a National monument
95M7 TIL illegal Sardinian Cheese, its illegal since the cheese is made from goats milk that is fermented in a a newborn baby goat’s stomach. The baby goat is killed, its milk filled stomach is then hung up for months while the milk hardens into cheese, and then serve with a knife.
9YrEM TIL that a doctor in the UK was targeted by vigilantes because they were confusing her professional title (paediatrician) with the word "pedophile"
wLxNP TIL Jean-Baptiste Lully died of a gangrenous abscess after accidentally piercing his foot with a staff while he was vigorously conducting a Te Deum. It was customary at that time to conduct by banging a staff on the floor. He refused to have his leg amputated so he could still dance