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TIL most skydiving parachutes have a computer failsafe that will automatically deploy the chute at a preset elevation or time

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Rnyl TIL Flames conduct electricity
v1mO8 TIL that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people. Completely delegitimizing any ancestral claim to Palestine.
P1bRZ TIL about King Clone, a ring of creosote bushes in the Mojave desert. At an estimated 11,700 years old it is one of the oldest living organisms on earth.
AQVn TIL Synsepalum dulcificum is a “Miracle Fruit” which, after consumed, makes sour foods taste sweet. And in the 1970’s an attempt to commercialize this fruit for that purpose failed with accusations of the sugar industry sabotaging the research to prevent loss of business
Y7vGZ TIL that killer whales are part of the oceanic dolphins family Delphinidae, which is part of the toothed whale sub-order Odontoceti. Basically, orcas are dolphins and dolphins are whales.