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TIL that pistachios are prone to spontaneous combustion and any mass transport requires strict precautions.

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woJ1P TIL philosopher Thomas Hobbes was born prematurely on 5 April 1588, his mother going in labor because of her anxiety about the imminent invasion of the spanish armada, He would later write that "my mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear"
m18BR TIL that no person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
gWvb TIL That Cold Stone’s “No Drip” ice cream doesn’t melt because it contains Instant Pudding Mix.
b6ZR4 TIL of the Order of Malta Passport. It's the rarest passport in the world and is only issued to a few hundred people.
pLo8 TIL of “mummy brown”, a once-popular paint pigment made from ground-up Egyptian mummies. It was produced well into the 20th century, and only disappeared when the manufacturers ran out of mummies.