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TIL About a fire at North Orange Blossom Trail warehouse in 1991. It burned so hot they couldn't put it out with water because it separated the hydrogen and oxygen.

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4QKR TIL a teenage girl of the Xhosa people in Africa convinced her entire tribe to kill all their cattle, saying it would bring about a cataclysm destroying English colonizers. Tens of thousands died in the subsequent famine, and the English were unharmed.
pAme TIL that scotch tape, when peeled in vacuum, produces enough x-rays to image a persons finger.
eVbg TIL it is illegal to deny the holocaust in 17 countries
dDKaK TIL that Napoleon married his second wife by proxy and met her for the first time two weeks later. Upon meeting she remarked "you are much better-looking than your portrait."
d8J1d TIL The Giant Squid demonstrates Deep Sea Gigantism, a phenomenon whereby deep dwelling species grow far larger than shallower water relatives to be more efficient in the depths where food is scarcer