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TIL the daughter of Steve Irwin endorsed SeaWorld after Blackfish was released

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6EA1W TIL when Mary Queen of Scots was executed, her executioners knelt before her to ask her forgiveness. She granted it saying “I forgive you with all my heart, for now, I hope, you shall make an end of all my troubles.” Unfortunately the headsman missed his first stroke, hitting the back of her head.
ep86D TIL an industrial engineering screw up resulted in the entire Colorado River emptying into a California valley over the span of two years. This resulted in a 318 sq mile body of water known as the Salton Sea.
GypG TIL there is a carnivorous plant big enough to drown and digest rats.
Jayk TIL Samuel Johnson, an Englishman, said regarding the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”
Oox6 TIL that, according to a mating theory called Hypergamy, a woman will always encounter instinctive urges to leave her current partner in favor of someone she percieves to be of “superior” status.