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TIL that JFK, when stranded on the Solomon Islands, wrote a rescue message on a coconut, and was rescued. He got the coconut back, and it was on his desk in the Oval Office.

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KOxaJ TIL the chemical reaction in glow sticks was discovered by Dr. Edwin Chandross in 1962, but he had no idea the "chemiluminescent" objects were popular at music shows until a Vice interview in 2013. "Is that so?" he said. "Maybe my granddaughter will think I'm cool now."
9W7B TIL; Porcupines forage in trees but are bad climbers “in one study of porcupine skeletons in museums, 35 percent had healed fractures consistent with falling”
vPm1L TIL that turtles survive car hits and can suffer for weeks on the road before eventually dying. :(
9wY0G TIL a lack of an Oxford comma cost a dairy $5 million
o8Wr TIL in 1960 the heir to the Coors beer fortune was abducted and murdered