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TIL: A japanese guy lost approximately $70 billion during the dot com crash of 2000

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695vW TIL that poisonous birds exist. They contain toxins in their skin which are dangerous to touch or eat.
R5dxa TIL - Jethro Tull (the band’s namesake) was an English agriculturist who sparked the British Agricultural Revolution by perfecting a horse-drawn drill in 1701, that sowed seeds in neat rows, for easier harvest
8a7X TIL. There exists a Mohawk settlement on land reclaimed, by force, from the United States.
ANREg TIL when Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan attacked Japan in 1274 and 1281, typhoons struck both times, causing significant damage to the fleets. Japan successfully repelled the invasions, and the Mongols never attacked again. The typhoons are called "kamikaze" and are said to have saved Japan.
emKL TIL Trey Parker almost made an action movie about a mentally disabled 9-year-old boy defending his small Colorado town from being destroyed by eight-foot-tall monsters that live in the mountains, but had to ultimately quit the project to pursue South Park.