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TIL: Coca-Cola no longer includes the actual Cola nut
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TIL that laser sights were introduced in 1979, but only took off in popularity with consumers after Arnold Schwarzenegger prominently used one in “The Terminator.”
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TIL When threatened, a female quokka may drop her joey from her pouch to divert the predator's attention while she escapes.
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TIL in 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made the first manned free balloon flight. He later died in 1785 attempting to fly across the English Channel, becoming the first victim of an air crash.
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TIL that after he died Wild West Big Nose George Parrott's skin was used to make a pair of shoes.
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TIL Herschel Grynszpan, a Jew whose killing of a Nazi diplomat sparked Kristallnacht. He was assumed to have been killed by the Nazis after disappearing from historical records in 1942. However, a 2016 facial recognition test yielded a 95% chance of Grynszpan being the man in a post-WW2, 1946 photo.