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TIL Nelson Mandela was on the U.S. Terror Watch List until 2008

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MEoW TIL severing the limb of a Bloodwood tree triggers the same type of response you’d see if you severed a human limb. The damage causes the release of a deep crimson sap that looks alarmingly like human blood; its sole purpose is to coagulate and seal wounds, but has many other medical uses as well.
QJyPM TIL Great tits in the UK, where birdfeeders are common, have developed longer beaks than their Dutch counterparts.
NX4Oe TIL Richard Wagner fled to Zurich between 1849 and 1858, due to his involvement in the May uprising in Dresden. Zurich changed Wagner from being an employed conductor and composer to becoming a freelance composer and writer, which was a new concept
9eZG TIL during the 1968 My Lai Massacre one helicopter pilot landed between the marauding American troops and innocent civilians and threatened to kill the Americans if they continued. He was later awarded America’s highest honor for bravery not directly involving combat
b9WW0 TIL Towards the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. started to reconsider his fight for Integration and even said "I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house"