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TIL There is a mythical animal from Asia called The Bonnacon that has curled horns and when startled sprays acidic dung

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GYW7Q TIL Two weeks before the Castle Gate Mine disaster that killed 171 men, the Utah Fuel Company laid off many of the miners without dependents during a shortage of coal sales. As a result, 114 of the men killed in the disaster were married men and left behind 415 widows and fatherless children
69exJ TIL Pandas don’t breed well in captivity because both male and female giant pandas have to be interested in each other in order to mate
1aZNr TIL that the US reached peak coal mining employment in 1923, when there were 883,000 coal miners employed in the US. Today, there are only 50,000 coal miners in the US. Nevertheless, the US produces about 50% more coal than it did 100 years ago.
MDam TIL that the Cliffs Notes for ‘The Scarlet Letter’ outnumbers sales of the actual book 3.6 to 1.
AD1Xn TIL that former Ugandan president Idi Amin asked Japan's government to loan him Kamikaze fighters in order to use them against the Tanzanians during the, 1979 Air campaign of the Uganda–Tanzania War