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TIL that squirrels aren't just herbivores that eat nuts and such, but also eat birds, frogs, lizards and even cannibalize other dead squirrels.

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gp8b TIL that it has been theorised that the Pillars of Creation, made famous by the Hubble Telescope, may no longer exist. They may have been destroyed by a supernova shockwave around 6000 years ago, but the light from this hasn’t reached Earth, so we won’t see it for another 1000 years.
A4Eg TIL That the research behind “Type A and Type B personality traits” was secretly funded by cigarette companies in the 1960’s to suggest that smoking cigarettes didn’t cause cancer and heart disease, being Type A did.
6VAw TIL the last three people John Belushi was snorting cocaine with before he fatally overdosed was a drug dealer, Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro
L7xr TIL of Leslie Coffelt, who was killed defending Harry Truman from an assassination attempt. Shot by an assassin 4 times, Coffelt propped himself up against a guard booth and fired one shot, hitting the assassin in the head and killing him. Coffelt collapsed immediately and died four hours later.
Wxv4 TIL Between 213-210BC in Ancient China, Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi buried scholars alive (and burned books) in order to unify all thoughts and political opinions and to suppress intellectual discourse.